Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obstructionist. In Trinidad, an irate landlord sued David Cork for plugging the water tap...
...four of the French Communist Party were sitting around a rickety wooden table in an office on the top floor of the Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez' own electoral fief. At Ivry the constitution had been carried...
...started the Book-of-the-Month Club to tap this mass market. He rediscovered the ever-new old fact that Americans like to have culture sold to them. He set up a board of five cultural experts, to choose a book a month for B.O.M.C. members. B.O.M.C. now has 900,000 members; they usually pay the regular retail price for books, but get a book free with every two bought, and one for joining. President Scherman can afford the dividend...
...mark, Coach Dick Corchoran's fast-breaking quintet took just three minutes to pull ahead of the Crimson, Walt McCurdy's basket making the score 47 to 46. They kept their lead--ranging from one to five point's margin--until the last two minutes of play, when a tap-in by Lew Decsi plus two foul shots and one field goal by Gray put the Cantabs back into the game; then the former Bowling Green ace put on a one-man freezing act to put the game...
...apparent Jap attempt still puzzles CWS. Two bottles of water drifted in from the Pacific by balloon. One was no more polluted than tap water in some careless cities' municipal water systems; the other, for reasons known only to Tokyo, contained sterile water...