Word: lapping
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...Brian follows where duty leads, which is downward, to the linoleum floor of his office. But Wendy is not detached from her obsession. She flutters to the floor several times a week, like a napkin off a fat man's lap. When Brian is absent she writes rumbustious letters, one of which is intercepted by his beautiful, intelligent, talented and rather dull wife, 39-year-old Erica...
...happened to Martha." She was playful with Woodward. "Come on," she teased, "you voted for Richard Nixon in '68, didn't you?" A ruffled Bob admitted it. Bernstein huffily remarked that there was such a thing as the secret ballot. Later, Martha jumped into Carl's lap, just to show that there were no hard feelings...
...carpeted B.U. hockey arena. The dixieland band plays only during warmups and between games, never between points. The Lobsters' mascot, a six-foot-tall bright orange cloth lobster with a tennis raquet in one claw, flaps his claws together decorously after good points, then folds them back in his lap...
...President William J. McGill revealed that "a very substantial number of trustees feel very strongly about the problem of approving a prize which seems to convey that the university is approving illegal acts." Some trustees also balked at rewarding White for a story that may have fallen in his lap. Said McGill: "The feeling is not that the reporter is at fault here but that the award is significant only because of the misdemeanor, and that seems to us to be Xerox journalism." White's colleagues defended him from that innuendo. They pointed out that though he spent last...
...mile men's novice race, for riders not registered with the Amateur Bicycle League, was turned to chaos by the rain and resulting slippery roads. The riders completed a control lap safely, but in the first turn at racing speed someone slipped and the resulting pile up reduced the pack of 40 to a pile of 30 scrapped riders and twisted bicycles...