Word: tap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helms loved the big tunnel that the spooks dug into East Germany in 1956 so that they could tap into the phone cables. For months U.S. intelligence was able to listen to secrets that reached all the way back to Moscow...
While hundreds on the overcrowded dance floor jiggled enthusiastically to the music of Universal Sound, a jazz-oriented group from Boston's Berklee School of Music, others waited patiently in long lines for their share of the nearly 150 gallons of Michelob beer on tap for the event...
Meanwhile, national security analysts say the real problem is what will happen if the U.S. continues importing half its oil, and producing nations decide one day to turn off the tap...
Unfortunately, the ethnic strain runs out elsewhere in the Square. Jonathan Swifts' boasts Guiness stout on tap which obviously merits a few brownie points from the IRA, but there's something wrong. Maybe it's the music--no bagpipes--or the bartenders--too many straight noses and not enough freckles in that crowd. It's even worse at the Wursthans, where you may be able to pick up a bottle of Harp Lager, but the accents are all wrong. And the only thing Irish about Father's Six is the in-house entertainment: every few days you're treated...
...jetted to Chicago, Denver and San Francisco-and concluded that "there must be a better way to disseminate economic data and forecasts." It was on the plane that he conceived the idea of putting his econometric model and other data on a large central computer that clients could tap into...