Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother recognized the little girl's love for music and took her for tap-dancing and harmonica lessons. After a while Miyoshi switched to the mandolin. ("I didn't like mandolin, either. When I didn't like, I quit.") Next came piano. Says Miyoshi: "I just loved any sound that you could do it with instrument...
Near the Bay of Plenty on New Zealand's North Island is an uneasy, earth-quaky land full of hot springs, geysers, active volcanoes and puddles of boiling mud. Trying to tap the power of this natural boiler, government engineers have dotted the area with wells, out of which steam pours with a screeching roar that makes jet engines sound like whippoorwills. Last week six of the screaming jets had been harnessed to a turbine and were generating 6,400 kw. of geothermal electricity...
Beyond Europe and the U.S., small-car makers are learning to tap markets in developing nations around the world where economy is more important than power or size. Foreign cars account for 41% of Puerto Rico's car imports. German cars jumped from 14,000 to 22,000 in the first six months of this year in South Africa, from 7,700 to 13,000 in Australia. Tiny Kuwait has bought 1,100 German autos...
Food sales account for 70 percent of Cronin's gross, liquor the other 30 percent. About 1,120 gallons of beer come out of the tap each week. Cronin tends bar occasionally, and voices wise words for other bartenders: "Remain aloof yet attentive. Listen, but never give advice...
...tribesman sadly predicted that Jean-Marie would live some day like white men, drink water from a tap, not from the spring, and even use a tablecloth at dinner. Author Beti, himself a native of the Cameroons, describes the tribal way of life with such affection and good humor that even the hardened Western reader will long to swap his faucets and tablecloths for the refreshing springs and loincloths of the Cameroonian sticks...