Word: tap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blankets around him and he said, 'I am a Catholic. Get me a chaplain. My blood is type A.' I told him that all of us were trapped down there and there was nothing we could do. He then told us to use the Morse Code and tap it out on the bulkhead." The sailors didn't know the code, so the injured officer taught them how to hammer out SOS with a wrench and a wooden stick. "Then he said, 'Let us pray.' He led us in the Lord's Prayer. He never...
...Grob-Prandl and Tenor Ludwig Suthaus were imported from Germany to do Tristan and Isolde and Die Walküre. At week's end, Italian Coloratura Contralto Giulietta Simionato and Tenor Cesare Valletti drew ovations in Massenet's rarely heard Werther. German Soprano Inge Borkh is on tap for Strauss's Elektra and Puccini's Turandot...
...have shed pleasant tears at the plight of trapped royalty, and breathed a happy sigh of relief when at last the royal one escapes into a commoner's arms (Olivia de Havilland and a handsome pilot in 1943's Princess O'Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call Me Madam). As the princess in Paramount's new picture, Roman Holiday, the newcomer named Audrey Hepburn gives the popular old romantic nonsense a reality it has seldom had before. Amid the rhinestone glitter of Roman Holiday's make-believe, Paramount...
...year bond issue of April, and congested by more than $7 billion worth of federal, state, city and corporate bonds offered so far this year-the biggest six-month total in history. Explained Humphrey's deputy, W. Randolph Burgess: "Savings money of the type you tap when you offer a long-term security accumulates slowly. You can't go to the well too often. You have to allow time for the well to fill up again...
...colonel's other associates, except for Alberto. He had, indeed, been a police inspector-but three years before he had been fired for embezzlement. By this time, the baron was hardly surprised to learn that his uranium was sand and his heavy water came straight from the tap...