Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simply by keeping his auto tires properly inflated to reduce friction, a driver can save as much as 50 gal. of gas per year. Still another 75 gal. can be saved by keeping an engine in tune: ignition timed, carburetor checked, pollution-control valve cleaned, filters and spark plugs repaired or replaced...
...real mismanagement, however, was not military but political. The argument was over who was going to cross the canal first and who would be chosen to do it, not how it should be done. I told them I am commander of 15,000 troops and I have no tune to screw you now because I have to screw the Egyptians. Now I have no tune to fight with you politically, but when the war is over you will all have to wear helmets...
...people no longer even pretend to take the slight est interest in it. Monetary collapse seems a thoroughly suit able way to celebrate the first anniversary of joining the Common Market, we feel. Our European entry was another event that excited our political leaders and the "heavy" newspapers - this tune to raptures of optimism - but which left the nation bored and mildly skeptical...
...agent in the Midwest, he opened a law office in rural Suffolk, Va. He was elected to the house of delegates in 1948 and later became one of the late Harry F. Byrd Sr.'s stalwarts in the "massive resistance" to integration of schools. By the tune he had served a term as Lieutenant Governor (1962-66), he had moderated his views sufficiently to win the backing of both blacks and organized labor in his first election as Governor...
...Cuban freighter Imias has been swinging idly at anchor between two locks in the Panama Canal since Oct. 3. Throughout that tune a U.S. Zone policeman hi a tiny launch has circled the ship with unceasing vigilance. The bizarre scene is part of an international legal tangle that involves money, politics, diplomacy, a violent coup, and howls from all sides directed at the U.S. and the federal judge who is responsible for the launch's vigil...