Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Radio Tap. When he was not yet 20, Markevitch studied conducting for several months with Scherchen ("Sometimes he would wake me up at two in the morning to say he felt in the mood to give me a lesson"). World War II helped nudge him into a fulltime conducting career...
...Cunningham, 38, learned his first fancy steps from an oldtime vaudeville performer who taught him a sailor's hornpipe in a special soft-shoe version. That was back home in Centralia, Wash., where Cunningham grew up, the son of a country lawyer. In those days he used to tap-dance at the local Grange Hall, eventually graduated to a summer session at California's Mills College, where he met Martha Graham and agreed to join her company. In the Graham years he danced male leads in such works as Letter to the World and Appalachian Spring...
...bottles (about a quart), enough for 500 doses. A nurse drew 2 cc. (half a teaspoonful) at a time with a bulb-type dropper, put it in a tiny paper cup. Another worker added about a tablespoonful of water-distilled, to guard against the possibility that chlorinated tap water might reduce the vaccine's potency...