Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manpower Demands. Despite congressional criticism that the air war has been ineffective, the North Vietnamese are obviously hurting. "The war is creating very great manpower demands," re ported North Viet Nam's ideological journal Hoc Tap in its July issue. In deed, Secretary of Defense Robert...
Committed to Teaching. Beloit students top off their four years with a one-term common interdisciplinary course, which focuses on current issues, taught in small seminars by professors from any field, who try to tap the full range of the students' on-and off-campus experiences. Students must pass a three-hour comprehensive exam in their major field, tests in natural science, social science and the humanities, and a foreign language test...
...that the rate should have even been higher. Many corporations postpone bond offerings if interest rates leap too high. "We don't have much option," says A. T. & T. Vice President-Treasurer John J. Scanlon. Reason: as the nation's largest private borrower, the Bell System must tap the market almost every month...
Some Negroes, to be sure, were among the most insistent in demanding that the police start shooting looters. But the eruption, if not a "civil rights" riot, was certainly a Negro riot. It was fed by a deep well of nihilism that many Negroes have begun to tap. They have despaired finally-some this summer, others much earlier-of hope in white America. Last week at Newark's black-power conference, which met as that city was patching up its own wounds, Conference Chairman Nathan Wright put it succinctly: "The Negro has lived with the slave mentality too long...
...Kelly could pass as the aging big star lapsing into the big fadeout. But not so. One flourish from that invisible 100-piece orchestra that always seems to follow him around, and he would undoubtedly slap on his hairpiece and straw hat, pirouette over the coffee table, go tippity-tap-tapping along the poolside, buck and wing it across the volleyball court, and end up with a ten-minute improvisation on the monkey bars...