Word: tap
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...political candidates have not hesitated to tap into Harvard’s financial connections...
According to Caro, Johnson’s meteoric ascent was possible because he was able to tap and exploit previously neglected avenues to power...
...reader that fighting to fit into an externally dictated role is far too tiring. So order up an amaretto sour, buy those low-riding jeans (you know they make your ass look hot) and remember the next time you hear Kylie Minogue that sometimes a foot just wants to tap. As for the more flamboyant gays, don’t be so quick to judge them. One of these days, you just may find yourself waking up next to a boy wearing chipped black nail polish. And as you smile and roll over, remember what Dr. Seuss once wrote...
...Frank. Maybe it was Davis' broken home or his height (5 ft. 6 in. in his tap shoes) or his funny face, all big nose and jutting jaw, or the car crash that took his left eye, but Davis was a howling void of insecurity that drowned out all other emotion. He craved affection, especially from white people, preferably famous, preferably Frank. In Haygood's telling, Davis' marriages, his compulsive gift giving, his surprising conversion to Judaism, even his support for the civil rights movement, all play like bids for applause, just another snappy routine...
...time you try to be didactic, you end up not being able to get people excited. You sound like a Sunday morning talk show,” he says. “Our world [on the show] deals with a world of idealism and possibility. If we can tap into that, that’s great...