Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procession's end, Nehru stepped from his barge to an automobile and sped off to a guest house. Along the way he was serenaded by a volunteer band which seemed to know only one tune-Marching Through Georgia...
...their victim's flesh with hot pokers. Probably most effective and certainly most pathetic are the scenes showing the girl who was chosen to lead the band as it played the rhythms to which the whole camp marched; during all the thousand crimes which the Nazis committed to the tune of her music, she had to stand alone on her bandstand without flinching...
...outset, and the reflection in each character's attitude of the weakness that found such ready companionship in the lynching mob. The music, too, served its purpose--not perhaps so well as in such a western as "Duel in the Sun"--but the dull repitition of a prairie tune dampened any tendencies toward melodrama...
There was only one thing new on the Russian merry-go-round as it wheeled around to the same old tune: it had one rider less than before. The old East-West split of 53-to-6 had now become 54-10-5. The vagrant vote came from the grinning, youthful-looking Yugoslav delegates who sat in the row behind Vishinsky, seeming to rejoice in their freshly asserted break from Mother Russia...
...home-run balls, rolled into St. Louis for their final whack at the front-running Cardinals. They led with their ace, Pitcher Don Newcombe, and lost a heartbreaker, 1-0. Then, instead of curling up, they walloped the Cardinals in the next two, the last time to the roaring tune of 19-6, and rolled out of St. Louis only half a game out of first place. Early this week, the Dodgers stumbled in a game with the third-place Phillies while the Cards were beating the last-place Cubs-and the Dodgers slid to 1½ games behind...