Word: tappings
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...Tap Lessons. Florence, too, had read her Koestler. "One day I heard a tap-tap-tap, muffled, irregular, but methodical. I remembered the alphabet in Darkness at Noon: one tap for A, two for B, and so on.* I listened and for a long time could make no sense out of what I heard-until I realized that the language was English." She tried to join in the conversation, but the others were suspicious of her. At first there was no answer. But after repeatedly tapping out her name she discovered that the man in the cell below hers...
...convention a month ago to permit skilled and technical workers to bargain separately for higher pay, a move that many employers welcome since it will permit them to give the bigger pay raises they think the skilled workers deserve. Despite this progress, employers are still unable to tap extensively one huge pool of potential skills-the Negro worker -traditionally barred by many craft unions...
...Tap Day . . . Winning a way through the door...
...March 25), Warden Douglas Rigg of Minnesota's Stillwater State Prison made his 1,225 convicts available as volunteers to the University of Minnesota Reformatory. Both these groups-unlike most blood-bank donors, who have trouble getting free time to fit surgeons' schedules-will always be on tap...
...tap immediately is another meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee vote last March...