Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rigors of the trials were over, the showdown at Rome was still a fortnight away, but the U.S. Olympic men's track and field team was in no relaxing mood. The big idea at the final tune-up meet at California's Mount San Antonio Col lege, explained Hammer Thrower Hal Connolly, was "to go over there to Rome with something to scare 'em with." The scare was there: in one evening the U.S. stars broke four world records and tied two more...
...brown Italian loafers. He gazed at a blue, gold-starred Congo flag that had, all too obviously, been hand-sewn that morning, and a Marine Corps band struck up Stars and Stripes Forever-the commission assigned to write a Congolese national anthem has not yet come up with a tune...
...brashness. Most of Todd Bolender's choreography seems to be designed for a chorus of unusually limited capacities, and looks like the pointless prancing around that capacities, and looks like the pointless prancing around that characterizes bad amateur Gilbert and Sullivan. His can-can (to the famous tune dragged in from Orpheus in Hades) is probably the soggiest in history...
...Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda. But ability or ideology had little to do with the battle. As is their custom, big Japanese business firms, hoping for future friendly treatment in such matters as import licenses, taxes and government contracts, backed one or another of the eight party factions to the tune of $4,000,000. By common consent, it was the most corrupt convention in the party's short history. One happy delegate from southern Kyushu explained how the money went...
...week's end Wein & Co. were singing a sprightlier tune. Performing jazzmen and local merchants were not pressing for their bills, ticket holders might be refunded with jazz albums instead of cash, and so it looked as if the festival would just about break even. While power shovels scooped heaps of beer cans off the streets, talk about permanent cancellation ("This means the end of the Newport Jazz Festival," Founder Louis L. Lorillard had said in the dark weekend hours) had all but disappeared...