Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a federal grand jury in Boston. The longtime crony of ex-Presidential Aide Sherman Adams was smitten with two charges: evasion of personal income taxes (1953-57) amounting to a whopping $450,961, and dodging corporate income taxes (1952-57), owed by his Strathmore Woolen Co., to the tune...
...worst of the new massacres took place in a sprawling (pop. 15,000) community called Dschang. While the tiny French African garrison slept, a band of young Bamiléké tribesmen came marching down the dirt road singing their own pidgin French words to the tune of John Brown's Body. At the outskirts of town they split up into three gangs, and as they made their way down the streets, they began to swing their razor-sharp pangas with a kind of dazed abandon. They burned down 20 houses whose families had been trapped inside, slashed...
Piped Down. In Dearborn, Mich., arrested for punching a cabby in the nose and smashing his car radio, Francis McKenna told the judge: "The driver refused to tune in on a program commemorating our Scotch Poet Robert Burns...
...words like 'intolerance,' 'bigot,' and 'spiritual pride.' But if he thinks that that is the actual teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, the process of dialogue will let him in for some real surprises, and he will have to change his tune." Similarly, it may be disconcerting to some Roman Catholics to find "Protestants who live under the corporate discipline of the Word of God, who believe expressly that they must live in utter subjection to that Word and who believe in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the sacrament-to say nothing...
...relations outfit had to make a public relations decision: Should the tape containing Paar's walkout and all the criticism of NBC be put on the air? It should, decided NBC, and to show how human it could be, it even invited the public to be sure to tune...