Word: tune
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stroked) and mainly requires delicate, precise fingering. It also requires good care: the slightest humidity change in the Pleasants' Bonn home makes their instrument go sharp in summer, flat in winter. In winter they boil as much as two gallons of water daily to keep it in tune...
...gown, and she sings the song with gay sophistication. Blonder Lilo bounces about the Plaza's Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy triumph. But tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), frizzle-topped Edith Piaf wears a shapeless black silk dress and sings the tune (which she herself wrote twelve years ago) as a lament for everything that ever went wrong with love in Paris or anywhere else. Aging (43) Piaf seems hardly to have changed since she first appeared in Manhattan in 1947. Suave Vicky and wriggling Lilo only serve...
...guitar, put it in tune...
...former dictator faced the music last week in Colombia, and it was not a pretty tune. On trial by Colombia's Senate and charged with using the presidency for personal enrichment was General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 58, deposed in 1957 by a popular revolution. If the Senate decides that Rojas is guilty, it can deprive him of "civil rights," e.g., the right to vote, and it can remand him to the Supreme Court for trial on criminal charges. If the charges stick, Rojas may find himself behind prison bars...
...Heaven. The President asked Welk: "Don't you know The Yellow Rose of Texas?" Replied Welk: "Well, if we don't we can certainly make it up." Then, reports a White House aide, Welk and his band proceeded to do just that. No one could recognize the tune...