Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Next on tap for the aquamen will be a meet on Saturday against archrival Yale at Blodgett Pool, with another contest the following day versus Boston University. The next time the Crimson leaves Cambridge, the team will be bound for West Point in search of its ninth straight Eastern crown...
...attracted stalwart Middle Americans to romps that he himself once characterized as "just that far away from drag." As a musician, Liberace was a panderer: he edited classics down to four to six minutes because, he said, his audience would not sit still for anything longer. He sang and tap-danced competently, no more. From the early 1950s, when his syndicated TV show appeared ten times a week and won two Emmy awards, to the 1980s, when he set box-office records at Radio City Music Hall, Liberace was a visual rather than an acoustic phenomenon. He charted a path...
...investigating King's links to New York Attorney Stanley Levison, a former Communist who had become one of the civil rights leader's most trusted friends. Suspecting that Levison was part of a Communist plot to infiltrate the movement, Hoover persuaded Attorney General Robert Kennedy to authorize a tap on Levison's phones. Alarmed by the discovery that Levison had recommended another former Communist to King for a job, President John Kennedy warned King as they walked in the White House Rose Garden that his association with the two men could imperil impending civil rights legislation...
Citizens of Los Angeles have long maintained that they buy and imbibe bottled water in record amounts not out of fashion but out of necessity. The city's tap water, many of them claim, is heavily dosed with chlorine and often dirty. Not so, says this month's issue of Consumer Reports magazine, which rates Los Angeles' drinking water as "excellent" and says it is for the most part "flawless or nearly flawless." In a test of 50 bottled waters as well as tap water from Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles' H2O ranked with...
This piece is, I swear it now, the last on the subject and as I tap it out on the keyboard, please know that I relate the following story not to perpetuate my own absurd tale but rather to wrap up the proceedings for the curious...