Word: laps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose strokes are old-fashioned and who can do only a plain stitch, went to the Tercentenary Committee's knitting bee intending to watch rather than compete, entered with misgiving when the committee asked for volunteers. He sat down, removed his coat, put his straw hat in his lap for a knitting basket, and revealed a smooth head fringed with grey. His prize, when the bee was over, was a box containing 16 balls of yarn...
...mother was still inside, a splinter of wood from the top driven four inches into her brain as a result of son's taking a greasy curve a little too fast. No blood-no horribly twisted bones-just a gray-haired corpse still clutching her pocketbook in her lap as she had clutched it when she felt the car leave the road...
...Bing-Bang." This was the machine that the New Deal, through Attorney General Cummings, dramatically turned loose on organized crime. In 1932 the Bureau had had the kidnapping racket dumped into its lap when Congress passed the ''Lindbergh Law'' which made snatching across State lines a Federal offense. And at "General" Cummings' request. Congress last year provided the Bureau with automobiles and armaments for the first time. About the same time the Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws...
...trouble began fortnight ago when President Roosevelt tossed into the lap of Congress his scheme to up taxes on the rich as a means of distributing wealth and went gaily off to the crew races at New London. When he returned to Washington five days later he called Vice President Garner, Speaker Byrns, Senate Majority Leader Robinson, Senate Finance Chairman Harrison and Ways & Means Chairman Doughton to the White House for a conference that lasted nearly three hours. These five Administration bigwigs emerged to announce that the President's new tax plan would be appended by the Senate...
...sooner had J. Edward Jones got that off his chest than there dropped into his lap, unsought and unexpected, an amazing opportunity to put SEC on the spot. One William A. Rabell, a $6,500-a-year assistant chief investigator on the SEC staff who had been working on the Jones case, telephoned Mr. Jones at his Scarsdale home, offering to sell out for $50,000. He promised to reveal how SEC was distorting figures, to show Mr. Jones how he could riddle SEC's evidence, to "play dumb" if necessary, when called as an SEC witness...