Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Came Home doesn't try to tap tear ducts or beg reader sympathy. Mrs. Keith's story is full of suffering but singularly free of resentment. In a prefatory note that reads like a considered epilogue she rises above personal bitterness: "The Japanese in this book are as war made them, not as God did, and the same is true of the rest of us. We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you spiritually...
Hauptfuhrer, second-string end last fall and captain-elect of the 1947-48 basketball team, will use the springy legs that netted him so many tap-ins during the winter season to snag points for the Crimson in the high jump...
Russia might stage an astute political retreat, while Communist propaganda would tap-tap on the U.S. conscience. Moscow indicated the line. Said Izvestia, in a bland and self-righteous editorial: "What is such monopolistic 'American responsibility' but a smoke screen for plans of expansion? Dilations to the effect that the United States is 'called upon to save' Greece and Turkey from expansion on the part of the so-called 'totalitarian states' are not new. Hitler also referred to the Bolsheviks when he wanted to open the road to conquests for himself...
...Kirkland's Bryan Hall lights burned brightly as eager crammers poured over their weighty tomes in preparation over their weighty tomes in preparation for impending hour exams. Only the gentle tap of typewriters, and the soft strains of Network melodies, mingled with the soft love calls of mermaids wafted from the mysterious river, pricked the all-pervasive silence...
Beau Jack did a little tap dance to convince the two doctors from the New York State Athletic Commission that his kneecap-broken only three months ago-was mended. They were convinced-too easily. Everybody wanted Beau Jack to fight. The ex-shoeshine boy had pulled more cash customers ($1,400,000 in gate receipts) into Madison Square Garden in 18 main events than any other boxer. In the fourth round last week against Tony Janiro, Beau tried to duck a left hook, and his kneecap cracked again, in five places...