Word: tappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Into his unlikely comedy, Peter Nichols throws snatches of tap-dance routines, jazz, and vaudeville turns to leaven the tale of a young British couple (Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly) who camouflage the fragility of their marriage by concentrating their attentions and emotions on their hopelessly spastic daughter...
...foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure I've got the two I.D.'s necessary to get back into my college. I stare at the cops. They stare back and see a red armband and long hair and they perhaps tap their nightsticks on the barricade. They're looking at a radical leftist...
While proven classroom performance remains the best ticket to college, other qualities can also turn the trick - a wild sense of humor, a weird hobby, or almost anything that sets a student off from the ordinary. Anxious to tap un usual attributes that may not show up in a high school senior's grades or test scores, college admissions officials are relying more heavily on references from school principals and personal inter views with the applicant himself. In selecting next year's freshmen, the nation's leading universities took extra pains to seek out students who, says...
...United, the domestic carrier that is the nation's biggest airline (1967 revenues: $1 billion), lost its bid to go international, but was given a chance to tap new mainland cities for its rich Hawaiian trade, which already accounts for a third of its earnings...
...buildings housing the most up-to-date research equipment. Spared tuition costs, each student also receives a fellowship of at least $2,500 for living expenses. The university also throws in $1,000 so that students, or "fellows," as they are called, can start building personal libraries and tap New York's cultural life...