Word: dapping
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...little people in Boston--the garage attendants, janitors, longshoremen and city employees--like the Dap's style and feed him information as well as votes. He knew a teacher had been attacked in Hyde Park High School before School Superintendent Marion Fahey did. The workers at Dorchester District Court sent him an anonymous letter alleging improprieties that made the presiding judge call O'Neil nervously to explain. He claims to know every Boston cop by his first or last name, which is how he discovered that 14 city tow trucks bought, insured and registered over two years ago have never...
...swing will later serve as Harry of Monmouth's throne. The rising intensity of sticks beaten rapidly together, a rhythmic tapestry of violence, suggests a neighborhood gang rumble. One knows in one's slightly chilled bones that this war is not going to be fought on the dap pled green fields of Eton but on the harsh black asphalt of a city playground...
...north near Hanoi, Red MIGs made a rare appearance, jumping a flight of Phantoms in a ten-minute fight over Dap Cau railroad bridge. The MIGs missed; a Phantom's Sidewinder missile did not, and down went the 19th MIG kill of the war. It was a bang-up end to a heartening week...
...vigil or prayer that took place during the hour-long bus ride must have succeeded, for the rain did cease to let an overcast sky light the festivities of the dap. The avid golfers immediately took off for the dark green slopes, while some warm-blooded youngsters headed for the outdoor pool. The liquor tent, however, with its 16 bartenders, kept the rest of the crowd pleasantly relaxed for the remainder of the morning...
...George Szell; Epic). When he won Belgium's famed International Concours in 1952, recalls San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher, he was known as a garden-variety YAP (Young American Pianist). In time he became a DYAP (Distinguished Young American Pianist); now, at 32, he is a fully developed DAP (Distinguished American Pianist), as this superb reading of a popular war horse (22 available LP versions) demonstrates. Fleisher finds a Schumann that is virile, sinewy, full of sharply-profiled contrasts of tone and tempo...