Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...called in his federal planners, brushed aside their argument. "Don't we live too crowded around here?" he snapped. Last week officials were scurrying to find ways to tap federal funds. Next spring, at Adenauer's orders, the federal village will begin to look less provisional and more like what Adenauer has made it-the seat of Western Europe's most affluent state...
...eager to return to Kilauea Iki to try to convert the molten heat to power. By pumping water under high pressure down a pipe to the bottom of the pool and allowing it to percolate to the top as high pressure steam, they believe they might be able to tap enough power to drive a generator...
After a lay-up by Borchard which put the Crimson ahead for the first time since the opening minutes, 29-27. Phil Klein, who scored 11, and Bill Vrettas, a sophomore who had 13, combined to return Tufts to the lead. After the second half tap, the advantage kept changing hands until Kelley's splurge put Harvard ahead to stay...
Strauss: Die Fledermaus (Hilde Gueden, Erika Köth, Regina Resnik, Giuseppe Zampiere; the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan; London, 3 LPs). This otherwise fine recording of the imperishable operetta classic offers a strange side effect. One moment, the listener is tapping his feet to the most tap-pable of old Viennese waltzes; the next, he is caught up in the English rhymes of I Could Have Danced All Night, sung by Birgit Nilsson, of all people, in ponderous and chesty style. In the midst of the second act party scene, the producers have inserted anachronistic "entertainments" sung...
...scored with driving lay-ups. He hit from the outside. His huge hand flashed out of melees under the hoop to tap in rebounds. Agile as an acrobat, he seemed to hang suspended in mid-air while he faked his man, then got off shots whirring with English that flicked wickedly off the backboard and into the basket. When the need arose, he simply used his football lineman's build (6 ft. 5 in., 235 Ibs.) to overpower any player foolish enough to block his path. In the first quarter alone, Elgin Baylor, 25, Negro star of the National...