Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was something to the brags. He imposed a rare order on his powder-keg country, built efficient hospitals, crisscrossed the country with good roads, built housing projects for his 2,900,000 people, improved the water supply and increased literacy. Business prospered, and so did Trujillo?to the tune of an estimated $800 million fortune. He and his family owned 65% of the country's sugar production, twelve of its 16 sugar mills, 35% of its arable land. Home was a dozen palaces and ranches dotted around the country, each with a full staff of servants who faithfully...
Harvard's golf team defeated M.I.T. yesterday, 5 to 2, in its final tune-up for Wednesday's big match against Yale...
...Lucky Debonair: the $30,400 Blue Grass Stakes, tune-up for this week's Kentucky Derby; at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. The heavy favorite at 3-10, Ada L. Rice's colt charged into the lead rounding the last turn, fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...
...charm, this Broadway show tune makes an oddly off-key conclusion to a sequence that began on uncharted seas and in that vast, primeval, nearly empty continent. This sums up both the virtues and the faults of Morison's volume. It does present the incomparable sweep of the American story in the words of a justly respected historian. But it is also often disappointing and, as the account approaches the present, it becomes superficial and at times trivial...
...played attentively. They thundered when the occasion demanded, or played under the chorus's pianissimo, which was very soft, Randall Thompson's orchestrations are more or less routine work for instrumentalists; the strings played what they had well, the wind solos were good, but not always exactly in tune...