Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab technicians who gathered in Cairo would have to be taken more and more into account as the years go by, but at the moment they are in no position to make everyone else jump to their tune...
...omitting the happenings between 1893 and 1898. My recollection is that Hawaii was annexed, then dis-annexed, due to differences of opinion and understanding between Liliuokalani and President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Commissioner "Paramount" Blount. The latter acted too hastily. The Republicans made much of this to the tune of Little Annie Rooney...
...Crosses, 19 Air Medals), is the most famed of the lot (he won headlines in 1957 as the first man to fly supersonically from Los Angeles to New York-piloting a Chance Vought F8U in 3 hr., 23 min.-later won $25,000 on TV's Name That Tune), probably has the most space savvy (McDonnell Aircraft consulted him in blueprinting Project Mercury's space capsule). He is also the champion humorist of the fast-cracking group, says: "I'm probably doing this because it is the nearest to heaven I'll ever get." His wife...
...land improvement, and is building a $2,000,000 clubhouse that has already been paid for by the sale of more than fifty 1½-acre plots (top price: $75,000). Four miles from Taylor's project is the Coral Harbour Club, bankrolled to the tune of $2,000,000 by the widow and children of Coca-Cola Co. Director Lindsey Hopkins...
Attilio Poto ended his five-year career with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra last night. The concert's final piece was Beethoven's seventh symphony, performed in a manner which revealed a good many now-familiar characteristics of Mr. Poto and his orchestra; the out-of-tune winds, the unclear articulation in the strings, the surprising power in forte passages; the clear, business-like beat of the conductor. Given these conditions, the last movement, with its big tuttis and its motor energy, came off best; delicate, involved sections fared less well. It was the performance of a good amateur orchestra which...