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Word: tap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PONDERED the shadows cast by the milling crowd on the cement floor of the Springfield Civic Center, a tap on the shoulder and a low voice accosted me. I had not understood at first, but the voice was saying, "Any 'cid?" Not having been at a Grateful Dead concert for some time, I was baffled. "What?", I asked. "Trips--you know, LSD," replied my prospective customer. (And I never thought I looked like the type.) "No. Sorry," I said, but he had already moved...

Author: By Thomas W. Keffer, | Title: A Long, Strange Trip | 4/30/1977 | See Source »

...started out on his trail-blazing round by clipping his ball with a sand wedge as cleanly as a dandelion head and then sinking a tap-in for par. On the third hole he had "an unreal par," punching a shot from overarching tree limbs while down on his knees...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Princeton Shades Linksters in Ivy Donnybrook | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

...charges of criminal misconduct was a necessary and welcome first step in exposing and redressing the FBI's illegal activities over the last several years. Between late 1970 and June, 1972, Kearney allegedly ordered members of the Bureau's internal security division to commit burglaries, illegally open mail and tap telephones of several New York based left wing organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigating the Investigators | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

...Watson stood in the center of the Bosky Amphitheater at the 18th green of the Augusta National golf course last Sunday and stroked in a tap-in to win the Masters. Watson was not quite as resplendent as Jimmy Demaret was when he won the tournament on Easter Sunday, 1947, clad in canary yellow from head to foot, but then all anyone notices in the end is the green jacket traditionally given to the Masters champion...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Bobby Jones And The Ghost of Masters Past | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

...curtail waste of energy and tap the nation's coal reserves so that the U.S. can stretch out oil and gas supplies until past the turn of the century, when new sources of energy, such as fusion, geothermal and solar power, will be coming on-stream in a significant way. Though it is still subject to change, here is how the Administration's new energy program now looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: SUPERBRAIN'S SUPERPROBLEM | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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