Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...descent to earth, the most difficult and dangerous part of the flight, was still ahead. A last-minute failure might have left Gagarin in orbit to die a slow and lonely death, or fried him in the atmosphere. Earlier Soviet tune-up flights had suffered similar fates...
...music, concrete and absolute. The former utilizes pre-recorded sounds of real instruments before alteration by oscillators, filters and the like; the latter includes only sounds that originate inside electronic equipment. One piece, Amazing Grace, combined the two very effectively. A mysteriously distorted bass voice boomed out a spiritual tune, while round, bloated electronic sonorities swelled up, over-whelmed it and trundled to a stop...
Eight members of the Yacht Club will begin to tune up a 44-ft. yawl on Chesapeake Bay today in preparation for the McMillan Cup races at Annapolis this weekend...
Slow as the courtroom proceedings were to the spectaters, they seemed even slower for Seeger. Occasionally listening attentively, occasionally deedling on a scratch pad, he could also be sees drumming a little tune on the top of the dart mahogany table...
...German that his language has been called "a function of the body." The present translations need more body English. Even so, the volume is an excellent introduction to Brecht's restlessly animated evocation of life, in which his puppets-numberless versions of Everyman-dance to the Threepenny tune of Jonathan Peachum...