Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets are still black, except when bombs land. In that moment the outline of the buildings is silhouetted against the sky and reminds one of a fortress. Indeed Stalingrad is a fortress. Underground we enter the staff headquarters. Telegraph girls, their faces pale from sleepless nights and explosion dust, tap out dots and dashes. Communication officers pass with quick steps. In their dispatches they do not write about the hills, valleys or heights, but about suburbs, streets and sometimes even single buildings. I try to light a match, but it is quickly smothered. Here underground there is not enough oxygen...
Meantime the "Lidice Lives" Committee of the Writers' War Board (executive chairman: Fadiman) got a little tap on the knuckles from Premier Adélard Godbout of Quebec. The town of Frelighsburg, Quebec, announced the committee, would change its name to Lidice. But Frelighsburg had not been informed, and shortly Premier Godbout announced simply: Frelighsburg will be Frelighsburg and Clifton Fadiman will be Clifton Fadiman...
Genghis Khan solved the iron-ration problem by issuing each of his soldiers a straw so that his warriors could thus tap their horses' veins and drink the fortifying blood. The U.S. Army believes it may lick the iron-ration problem with Field Ration K-a three-meal package of concentrated food, which contains 3,726 calories and can be packed in a heat-and-cold-proof...
Perfectionist Astaire, world's No. 1 tap dancer, shows no signs of slowing down. Each of his routines has a new and different sparkle. One, performed while tipsy, is a deft parody of jitterbuggery. Another, a 4th of July number done to the accompaniment of torpedoes and firecrackers, is his favorite staccato buck & wing, with some fresh frills. A dazzler for any audience, it was a headache for studio technicians. Astaire could explode his own torpedoes, but the firecrackers had to pop in time with his fidgety feet. Technicians built an organ that would set off the crackers electrically...
...story of Tap Roots is startling in a different way. Morna Dabney was betrothed to Clay Maclvor, but when infantile paralysis withered her right leg, he made off with her sister Aven ("graceful as a waterfall"). Morna had to content herself, illicitly, with the "incredibly handsome" Keith Alexander, while the leg limbered up. Keith (in nonfiction the remarkable Alexander Keith McClung) was the bitter bastard son of a great man in Washington. Keith shot 17 men for asking who. Author Street keeps his guesses to himself...