Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Vinson told the world last week exactly how the U.S. Treasury Department stands on foreign loans. In his Kentucky accent (which makes "barrers" out of "borrowers") the Secretary of the Treasury reviewed a program which will make the U.S. a creditor nation to the tune of $7 billion-but no more...
...Mutiny but Unity. This was not the normal language of Congress party leaders. Nehru and his fellows no longer denounced violence as if they meant it. They sensed a new mood in India's masses, and swung toward extreme methods lest new leaders arise more in tune with the spirit of rebellion...
...with disturbing frequency. Suddenly the broadcast was interrupted by excited voices, a scuffle in the outer room, shouts and shots. The hated Allies were seizing the transmitter! "Put on the record, the RECORD!", a German voice shouted. And as Annie began, so she died, with the reedy, recorded Rhenish tune...
...Bakersfield dance last week was something special: Bob Wills was celebrating his 30th anniversary as a cowboy fiddler. For the occasion, he played his 35th new tune, a fox trot called G.I. Wish ("G.I. . . . wish that I were free to roam, G.I. wish that I were home"). It had the same kind of whine, the same kind of maudlin lyrics that put his Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima and Smoke on the Water among the nation's top-selling folk records last year...
Tufts has been the only squad to test the University team's ability, and Coach Jay Thomas's lads came through nobly to the tune of 19 to 13. The Bulldogs, however, are clutching a far more impressive array of scalps. The Blues took Army's highly touted mat artists 21 to 11, and they pinned Princeton...