Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boundaries. Again the man in possession called the tune. From Finland, Russia is to get the warm water port of Petsamo and a lease on the Baltic naval base at Porkala; from Rumania, 79,300 square miles of Bessarabia. Other shifts in the Balkans give Transylvania back to Rumania, southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste...
...unpainted clapboard shack in Tokyo's gutted east end, a middle-aged Japanese laborer sat on the floor with his family and, in tune with his three-tube radio, hummed the Atami Blues...
Sure everything was on the road back to normalcy. The headlines weren't any worse than they were in the thirties, and the same old gripers had the same old gripes. But the wheel of progress was moving faster and faster. Maybe Vag was out of tune with the times. Maybe everything would work out for the best in the end. But meanwhile there was so much to do and so little time to do it in. Let's not miss anything. Get in there and pitch, sonny, there's no telling when the game will be called on account...
Adding insult to injury, the Boston University Terriers lambasted the Varsity nine for the second time to the tune of 16 to 4 last Friday at Nickerson Field...
...Byas, temporarily forsaking the riffy, howling style he has been courting lately, and Johnny Hodges, from whom one might well have expected at least one good performance, take up most of the twelve inches with slow lyrical and tender soloings on an undistinguished, though at least idiomatic, popular tune of several years back called "Gone With the Wind." Hodges is on his best behaviour, playing the type of music he likes best in the style in which he best likes to play it; and as for Don Carlos Byas, eh bien; some circles believe he never did as well before...