Word: tap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...revolution in airline thinking. Hitherto airlines have cautiously added planes only when forced into it by increasing business. Trippe plans to get the equipment first and then drum up the business. Eventually he expects to shave passenger fares to 3½? a mile (current average: 8¾?) and thus tap the probably enormous "See South America in Two Weeks" vacation market. He expects to drop average cargo rates to 25.4? per ton mile (current rate...
...rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, he would moderately develop the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner." His chief passion was planting cork trees. But for five years the Count had practised "mutual seduction" with beautiful Solange de Cleda. A horse-lover, he "was always tempted to tap Solange on the buttocks and give her a piece of sugar." Solange liked to fall on her knees in a crowded room and, "feebly muttering," wind her arms around the Count's legs...
...Tap on the Shoulder. Overnight, the priest became an international figure. He was feted, shown the sights, received by Soviet dignitaries. A special train was reserved to take him to the front, to visit the Kosciuszko Division of Red Army Poles...
Like duffer golf and taking alarm clocks apart, steelheading is insidious. Once a fisherman has felt the steelhead's gentle tap, has socked him and missed, he will never give...
...They'd come sliding right up to our positions. We could hear them signaling with bamboo sticks: 'tap-tap-tap-tap,' then a pause, and then 'tap-tap.' Then a grenade would land somewhere near by so when we heard the tappings, we'd just pray that the next one wasn...