Word: tappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from arthritis) and snowy-haired, he still shuffled among his charges, softly scolding fidgeters with a light tap of his crutch and explaining to visitors, "They hear...
...young dude in a silken mustache and patent-leather shoes adrift through the California gold mine country, Harte discovered the literary lode he was to tap for the rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...
...layer of ice was still shiny when Gray closed the gap on a nifty tap from a few inches out. Harvard offered the visitors another opportunity when Tony Kotnik and Tom Michiletti were stewing together in the penalty box. The Crimson simply couldn't handle a five-on-three barrage twice in one day, and Darrell Abbott tied the game with a screen shot...
...Room at Three a.m. which Lyndon Johnson has worked so hard to cultivate. Even if it is true that like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Johnson has tended to play off one advisor against another to make a personal decision, the fact remains that a surfeit of advice has been on tap...
...country, leaving day-to-day government to his able and popular Prime Minister, Hussein Mazik, and encouraging talk of a constitutional monarchy and even a republic after he is gone. Whatever Libya becomes, the chances are that its wealth will continue to grow: it has hardly begun to tap the oil riches with which nature, forgetting almost everything else, has endowed...