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Word: tapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of distrust. The students are clearly not satisfied with the administration's statements. In the sexual harassment issue, the administration is repeatedly emphasizing that it is taking firm disciplinary action against the harasser and students are repeatedly asking for proof that this action is not a mere tap on the wrists. I am not being patronizing about the administration but it is clear that they have not botched the job of governing this college in the past decade. Then why the distrust on the part of the students? Why the accusations that the University is covering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Crisis of Confidence' | 10/18/1983 | See Source »

...tourists" have roamed through the system, many of them teen-agers who rode it like a magic carpet to computerland. The network's lines have been used for Dungeons & Dragons duels and its electronic mail system as a dating service. Far more serious, according to officials, attempts to tap into coded classified data have become increasingly bold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: End of the Ride | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...They add a certain element of liveliness," adds Alan B. Langerman '85, explaining. "College students are boring--they talk, they tap on glasses. Little kids come running into the dining hall and they're exciting and fun to watch...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: At Home, At School Children in the Houses | 10/15/1983 | See Source »

Kenworthy, in fact, scored the first time he touched the ball. Senior Captain Lee Lanzillo found him with a long pass breaking from midfield. Hasbun came out of his net to challenge, but mishandled the ball, and Kenworthy scored on a tap...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Booters Down Eagles | 10/6/1983 | See Source »

...news in Hollywood that a new star had been made. But it was news throughout the U.S. that the best tap dancer in the world, Fred Astaire, had a new dancing partner. She danced out with him before the nation in Columbia's new musical, You'll Never Get Rich, and she was the best partner he had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1941: Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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