Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very useful word is 'KOMING' When lack of data gets benumbing. When a fact is not on tap, KOMING quickly fills the gap. When up against a realistic Need to use a small statistic, Writers keep their KOMING humming...
...Tigers now led for the first time, three games to two. In two previous series, 1934's and 1940's, they had got that far and foozled. With Fireballer Trucks on tap, Steve (& Mary) O'Neill were sitting pretty. Charlie (& Lillian) Grimm had no choice but to come back with his trump after only two days' rest...
...Bamba. As they do it at Giro's. La Bamba is actually a Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance. At one point the girl swings away from her partner, does a brief waltz step with a hop and a tap thrown in, while picking up her skirts and swishing them back & forth in flirty fashion. Nobody bothers about a ribbon on the floor, or singing while they dance, as the jarachos...
...Eggshells do not fall apart at the slightest tap of a spoon because the oval shape distributes the force of the blow around the whole egg. The Navy's Quonset huts-similarly curved-have survived winds of more than 100 m.p.h., including Williwaws in the Aleutian Islands...
...They made only a brief appearance in bathing suits. They wore evening gowns for the serious business -proving to the judges that they possessed "talent." Since many of them had confessed rather wildly to having no "talent" at all, the results were often novel. Some sang, some recited, some tap-danced, and one girl played Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life on the marimba. Hundreds of soldiers and wounded veterans who came to the theater to look at legs, came back, fascinated, night after night...