Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devious, Stalin is direct. . . . He was always in good humor and enjoyed a joke." Jimmy Byrnes now says that he was not fooled, although it took him and President Truman some time to find out Stalin's true nature. "It clearly has been Stalin who has called the tune," writes Byrnes, "and Molotov who has made it last as long as a symphony...
...whole thing seemed out of tune to Vag. Last night's rally had been all wrong somehow; none of the usual breezy blitheness of the past weeks, when coaches and captain had primed him with confidence and brought the brave glint of defiance to his eyes. He had tried, all right, coming out, to Holyoke Street with a little bottle and lots of euthusiasm; but there were discouraging gaps in the ranks of morale-boosters on the big steps which no amount of cheerleader gyrations could replace...
...months now, at the drop of a sportswriter's participle, the diminutive Boston University coach has been singing the "Harvard is out of our class" blues. Crimson musical experts feel that he is slightly out of tune. It isn't that Donelli is not a completely honorable citizen-it is just that they feel that he is not above a small tactical exaggeration...
Destiny, in the form of Selective Service, stepped in again. Two and a half years later, with a "deeper, more virile'' voice, Gordon was back. Last year he crooned to the tune of $100,000. Of his voice, he says: "I sing. My singing isn't intimate or swoony. I just like to get out there and pelt a song across...
When safely out of earshot of Russia's secret police, Russia's patient, long-suffering peasants fitted new words to an ancient singsong tune: If there were no winter...