Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was Rauh who put the Washington Post onto the story. In the belief that a Pulitzer Prize plum had dropped into their laps, top Post executives saw Hughes repeatedly, without seeing through him. Once, when things seemed about to come to a head, Publisher Phil Graham rushed to tell...
In this sense, Julie's emotional power is the opposite of the kind most strong emotional actors have. It is intensive, not extensive. From Booth to Brando, audiences have loved the actor who can spill his guts in their laps. Julie's instinct is not toward dissolution, but...
But the competition was stiffer than expected: at the end of the first two hours the crowds were screaming excitedly as Britain's Mike Hawthorn, in a Jaguar, was well in the lead, followed by two Ferraris and then the three Mercedes. Hawthorn had done 28 laps in less...
He braked his Jag and swung to the right toward the pit. Behind him, Britain's Lance Macklin in an Austin-Healey, running four laps slower than the leader, was caught short. He braked hard and swung left. Behind the Austin-Healey was Pierre Levegh's No. 20...
Lowell Laporte '56 was hurled an estimated 23.5 feet and run over by an automobile when his motorcycle spun out on one of a series of laps around Memorial Hall. Laporte was rushed to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in an ambulance summoned by residents who were aroused by the machine...