Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan approved, the N.S.C. decided to defer the formal notification to Congress of U.S. intentions to sell 75 F-16 fighters to Israel. But the slowdown, which has no time limit, will have little impact, since the aircraft are not to be delivered until 1985. To ease the wrist tap even further, the announcement of the deferral was made quietly...
Certain that the go ahead has been given. Civil and Al, perhaps the most valuable Buildings and Grounds employees at Harvard on this day, will tap the great church bell with a sledgehammer, producing the required "gay and cheerful tone" that an automatic clanger can not achieve...
...miserably cold January night in the throes of reading period at three in the morning. I was launched over a terminally faults portable typewriter, back wrenched in exhaustion, force me my fingers to tap out that last long term paper. I could have been any Harvard undergraduate by that description. I was going through a me of passage, that final but of creative torture, left until the last minute. When the only thing that keeps you going is the thought that at least next week's exams won't require a Smith Corona or footnotes. I could have been John...
...Tap General Revenues. Liberals, and others opposed to any reduction in benefits, argue for using income tax and other revenues to make any payments that cannot be financed by the payroll tax. Former Social Security Commissioner Robert M. Ball contends that the system could get through the '80s with relatively small "borrowings," which could be repaid, with interest, out of the reserves that the pension fund will again begin to accumulate...
Leading the nymphet brigade is Aileen Quinn, 10, chosen over 9,000 other applicants for the title role. Quinn can crinkle her eyes, read her lines, sell a song, tap her toes just like a real live girl; but because she is all calculating show biz and no childlike naiveté, she impresses as a red-headed homuncula. Her elders don't fare much better. Albert Finney, who manages a scowl that comes out a secret smile, has the right moves but not the forbidding magnetism of the world's richest capitalist. Ann Reinking, a terrifically sensuous dancer...