Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tap. Unable to do much about the freeze, Grossman began hacking away at the costly cobwebs the company inherited when it was formed nine years ago by a merger of two of Britain's oldest brewers. Streamlining Watney's chain of 6,650 company-owned pubs, he shut down those serving only 100 or so regular tipplers, opened new ones in more populous areas. Crossman has also converted many pubs into "Schooner Inns," which serve $1.40 steak dinners and sell a "terrific amount of liquor...
Demonic Pitch. Musicians who could play the quirky rhythms of Ellis' arrangements, or even tap their feet to them, were hard to come by. Eventually, he lined up a group, which today includes teachers, studio men, students and one lawyer, that could feel at home with everything from a quasi-classical passacaglia and fugue to raga time. After months of rehearsals, he brought in a score in 3⅔ time, and the band read it at sight. "That was the turning point," recalls Ellis. "The time barrier had been broken...
...Tap Day ordeal is not quite so horrible these days as it used to be. Still, all the Yalie juniors were holding their breath somewhat as the tappers fanned out from the windowless "tombs" of Yale's secret senior societies to perform the annual laying on of hands to select new members to their august company. Elihu, Scroll & Key, and the other four recognized societies chose more than 100 third-year men. Like Dink, Olympic Swimming Champion Don Schollander, 20, who brought back four gold medals from Tokyo in 1964, was tapped for Skull & Bones. In grateful...
...knows whether North Vietnam has its primary association with Moscow or China much less with what factions in China. And there is agreement by all except the custodians of the official truth in Washington that the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam has strong indigenous roots that tap both national ardor and ancient injustice. Never in modern times has history played such a disastrous trick on doctrine...
...double those figures within five years. "We can do it," he says. "The market is there." And he would seem to be right; Americans, gobbling up some 3.5 billion lbs. a year (better than 18 Ibs. a person), have made candy a $1.5 billion-a-year industry. To tap that kind of volume profitably, Kansas City-based Russell Stover Candies had to overcome a history of financial fitfulness that began with the company's founder...