Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. The very process of transforming a collection of personalities, dates, gun calibers, letters, and speeches into a narrative eventually forces the "why" to the surface. It will emerge of itself one fine day from the story of what happened. It will suddenly appear and tap one on the shoulder, but not if one chases after it first, before one knows what happened. Then it will elude one forever." Phi Beta Kappa Address Radcliffe College April...
...victory raised the Crimson's record to 5-3-1 (2-1 in the Ivies), while Brown fell to 1-6 (1-2 in the Ivies). More importantly, however, the win kept the laxwomen's Ivy League title hopes alive, with a big match-up against Cornell on tap this weekend...
...MUSICAL has a few other problems, too. The choreography is uneven: the first dance number is uninteresting and, during an otherwise good kickline number called, "Side by Side by Side," it is obvious that the cast is imitating tap dancing rather than performing...
...another factor in the poor handling of somatizers, he suggests, is that these patients tap into the physicians' own conflicts. Doctors, Ford argues, see a reflection of themselves in their somatizing patients. Citing studies, plus his own research, he says that many doctors and many somatizers tend to be emotionally inhibited, with high rates of sexual and marital difficulties and a high incidence of drug abuse. As children, both groups frequently lacked close, affectionate relationships with their parents. Their childhoods were commonly marked by a death or serious illness in the family that left them with anxieties about disease...
...fate amounted to a national vigil. Godfrey initially announced his retirement so that he would not be seen to "waste away." But he was perpetually rejuvenated by optimism. At 65, a decade after the surgery, he said: "The only things I have given up are cigarettes and tap dancing." He continued on daily radio until 1972, and in the next decade made repeated attempts at a TV comeback before succumbing to respiratory ailments last week...