Word: laps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other times before braking or shifting." Last week, on Darlington's narrow, 11-mile track, with its notoriously tight corners, Petty's feel turned a race into a rout. Gunning into the lead at the start, he stayed there for all but 19 out of 364 laps, coasted to a five-lap victory that was worth $26,900 and boosted his 1967 winnings to $110,175-just $3,395 short of Fred Lorenzen's all-time season record...
Although the oceans lap at their shores, more than 18,000 miles of the world's coastlines are virtually uninhabited because of the lack of available fresh water. Visionaries have long dreamed of using sea water to make these deserts bloom, but University of Arizona Scientist Carl Hodges is actually doing something about it. And not by means of futuristic and costly nuclear-powered desalination plants, but by efficient use of simple diesel-electric engines like those that now provide power to remote communities all over the world. A pilot project on Mexico's Gulf of California...
...abdicate her long-held role as iron-fisted matriarch of Bayreuth's every artistic and managerial move. Winifred had been a high-ranking Nazi, a personal friend and financial supporter of Hitler, and had allowed Wolfgang to be photographed as a child sitting in the Fiihrer's lap...
...lord from his hearth. Thus it happened one day, while he was flying in a plane over distant lands, that he chanced to gaze on a well-turned knee, and confessed himself enchanted. The lord looked further, and saw a dark-haired damsel with a violin in her lap. Much smitten by the woman, who was proficient enough to play in the Sydney Symphony and pretty enough to model, the lord determined to bide his time but to renew the acquaintance once they were back in Merrie England...
...four units will not compete with each other in price, but in service, quality and productivity. "We will throw up real savings in a short time," Lord Melchett says, but he admits that within the present domestic and foreign economic context the new venture is "very much in the lap of the gods...