Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigator did not find any listening device attached to the wire, but he told The Globe that the transmitter could have been removed in the two days after the secretaries became suspicious and before the investigation began. The expert, whose name was not given in the article, estimated the tap was on the phonefrom two to eight months...
Later I dropped by the Sidetrack Tap and fell into another kind of discussion. Wally, the proprietor, was arguing that your books are good for the old home town: "Put us on the map, after all these years," he said. "That's all well and good," Daryl Tollerud replied, "but when they read the map, what are people gonna think?" Daryl had to admit that story you told on him -- about the time he let the skunk into his parents' bedroom -- was pretty funny, but he didn't like you "writing up" what he was doing there, 42 years...
William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" speaks of seeing the world in a grain of sand. Just so did Jessica McClure, bravely humming verses from a Winnie-the-Pooh song, tap the wellsprings of humanity. In a confusing week, it was the plight of this tiny girl that was most readily comprehensible, and best conveyed Blake's message that small things, and the life of an individual, are what really matter...
Nice -- her growing sense of fellowship with them. After all, they are in the same business. She manipulates her clients to discover their best selves; they manipulate their marks to tap into their worst natures. Nice, too, her growing excitement (sexual and intellectual) as they seem to draw her deeper into their confidence as well as their confidence games...
...train: "Rich in history, rich in heritage, not as shiny as it used to be, but able to get back on track." An elderly man of the soil sidled over to us and inquired, "Do you think he believes all that horse manure?" Back on the train, even the tap water came out smoking...