Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough good seats, the scalper has to tap several sources. He has friends mail in for tickets for potential hits, buys other tickets through theater benefits, paying the steep benefit markup. He also buys directly from the box office or from reputable brokers, often luring assistants to help him, since his money still speaks louder than the New York Department of Licenses, which has fruitlessly tried to end illegal ticket practices. Some small-timers find it profitable to sell their position in line for My Fair Lady's 30 standing-room tickets a day for as much...
...Tapline, which carries oil from the Saudi Arabian fields to Sidon. Salam slapped a $13 million tax bill on I.P.C., gave the company until Sept. 29 to pay, under the threat of a heavy fine. Salam had hoped to play off Tapline against I.P.C., offered it a deal. But Tap-line sided with I.P.C., argued that a contract is a contract, that difficulties should be arbitrated...
...caught a lightning bolt on her masthead. The charge knocked out the radio and most of the electrical system, swirled the compass haywire. Worst of all, it fused together a generous supply of beer cans cooling in the bilge, and for hours afterward, the bilge pump produced beer on tap. The unnerved crew grabbed for the cans that survived, and broke open the emergency supply of hard stuff. "By the time we got to Mackinac." said one with a satisfied belch, "we were all pretty loaded...
...idea that is not uncommon among U.S. horse trainers. Nashua, the millionaire thoroughbred, along with many a competitor, shuns tap water, drinks only Mountain Valley Water, a bottled mineral elixir from Hot Springs, Ark. Some trainers think the spring water tastes better to horses, is good for equine kidneys. Horses are occasionally shipped to Hot Springs itself, where they can run at Oaklawn Park while taking heavy dosages on home ground...
...serious anemia and of extreme nervous fatigue. Feeling better after two months in the U.S., she went back to Rome to face the full work load. In a short time, all the symptoms reappeared and some new and frightening ones developed. Her fingernails became brittle, broke at a slight tap. She began to lose blonde hair by the brushful. Her teeth were noticeably loosening. Worst of all for a diplomat, she had become irritable. She was forced to spend more and more time abed, and she always felt the worse...