Word: lap
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...regulation would make travel safer for the 5,000 to 10,000 infants who board airplanes daily, it could make it more expensive. In many cases, parents will have to purchase an extra ticket for their baby, who currently flies free if seated on an adult's lap. But Air Transport Association President Robert Aaronson speculated that tickets for these tots might be free on underbooked planes or heavily discounted. "If you buckle up your child at 50 m.p.h.," he asked, "why not at 550 m.p.h...
...explained that the war of the Trumps has riveted the media's attention "because it revolves around lust, power, money, sex. A man who was successful, who's written books or had books written for him, and now he's got a little mud on his shoes. People just lap...
...premier historians. From Palm Beach, Fla., to Santa Barbara, Calif., via her syndicated column and New York City television show, she catalogs the follies and the triumphs of the famous, able in the wink of a cliche to make careers and unwrap reputations. Some folks can't wait to lap up her latest morsels; others think she ought to have her typewriter confiscated. "She has the power to get people to pay attention," says 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace, who is both friend and frequent subject. "If Liz talks good or ill, people's interest is piqued...
...history, in the college-formatted segment of history encased in Books, is that it is badly written. Badly written: boring, numbing, abstruse, statistical, dessicated, inhuman. Learning about the lives and actions of the human race through the bloodless method of sitting still with a sheaf of pages on your lap is difficult enough, but if the writing is also uninspiring...