Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only new building in Hiroshima was a Roman Catholic church, raising its simple, spireless two stories above empty, bombed acres. In the church's tiny backyard shed, an organ played while children clapped their hands and sang a Japanese kindergarten tune...
...walking horses which, he says, "are like me-slow-gaited and dependable." In the classic A.M.A. tradition, he views socialized medicine as a scheme of "political crackpots . . . enemies of freedom . . . importers of alien philosophies." Dr. Fishbein might have been soft-pedaled, but the A.M.A. was stubbornly sticking to its tune...
Jungle Tyranny. The vagaries of U.S. policy, to whose tune the banana dictators dance, helped tyrants hang on. Last winter, when Spruille Braden's blasts against tyranny were loudest, Dictators Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Tiburcio Carías Andino of Honduras behaved almost like gentlemen. Jail doors swung open, the press spoke up, elections were promised. Now rumor whispered that Bradenism was on the way out (vigorously denied in Washington last week) and the Strong Boys were strutting again...
Once, it was the gold brick. In Montreal last week it was the atom. Seven smooth swindlers dumped $500,000 worth of atom-bomb stock on scores of gullible Quebeckers. One investor, a Montreal physician, reportedly bit to the tune of $20,000. Since the atom bomb was top secret, the peddlers were mum about the way it was to be commercialized. But their fancy, engraved stock looked mighty pretty. A chunk of "deactivated bomb," a gear or two from an airplane motor, parts of a small lathe were more concrete come-ons. Provincial police, not impressed, arrested two atom...
Thoughtful scientists are thoroughly alarmed. Is the military about to take over U.S. science, lock, stock & barrel, calling the tune for U.S. universities and signing up the best scientists for work fundamentally aimed at military results? Many a scientist believes that is exactly what is happening...