Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shawnee, the courses included enunciation, programing and "how we acquire balance." Students sat in on rehearsals and broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a phonetic method of lyric singing ("Mah-ee Bahn-nee lah-ee-zo-oo-vuhr thee o-oo-shun"). By the end of the eight-week semester, all the students, including eight nuns, were fairly groovy...
...Economist, "the planners' last chance." It might end much of Labor's vague mismanagement. But by Attlee's own estimate, it could only carry Britain through the winter to face another, even bigger crisis in 1948. At that time, many observers believed, Britain would have to tap her last gold reserves and thus stand on the brink of national ruin...
...atom-smashing goes, the uranium bomb is a comparatively gentle affair. Fissioning the uranium atom is roughly comparable to cracking a ripe coconut in half with a well-placed tap: the atom splits neatly into two pieces (lighter atoms) and two or three almost infinitesimal particles (neutrons) that fly off like sparks. Atom smashers believe that they will eventually do much better than that...
...Promised Land, Tap Roots, The Gauntlet...
...government, was being gutted by an absentee industry served by seasonal labor. He urged the Territory to claim a bigger share of the wealth taken from its resources. He asked Alaskans to set up a general territorial property tax, corporate net income tax, a personal income tax which would tap the salaries of 12,000 migrant fish and cannery workers and thousands of other laborers who took their salaries to Seattle each autumn. He deplored the fact that Alaskans could not vote for a U.S. President, could not send Senators and a Congressman to Washington to fight their battles...