Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cemetery where a wreath of Texas evergreens marked the grave of Lyndon Johnson and a circle of tourists stood in quiet respect. Craning to see the license plates of their cars in the parking area, she noted with pleasure, "California . . . Pennsylvania . . . Michigan." Then she drove on, humming a cheerful tune...
...stage, screen (Show Boat) and concert hall; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Manhattan. Price and Warfield met and married while he was starring as Porgy, she as Bess, in the '50s revival of the George Gershwin opera. The celebrated marriage later fell out of tune, and the two were legally separated...
...which, by the way, Roth calls "five hundred pages of blubber"). The innuendoes of the game itself and the episodic richness of the narrative blot out attempts at conventional literary metaphor, as when some players visit a famous brothel peopled by wet-nurses, who sing lullabies for $2.50 a tune. These scenes don't work as "Literature", probably because they're so damn fun to read...
Indeed, because all the energy companies would pass along higher costs to the consumer, critics have charged that the energy crisis could conceivably serve, in Freeman's words, "as a massive exercise in picking the pocket of the American consumer to the tune of billions of dollars a year." No one is suggesting a conspiracy to raise prices; the literally hundreds of electric utilities, gas, coal and oil companies that all seek competitive advantage over one another could not effectively coordinate such a campaign. But the critics fear that consumers might be faced with excessive price boosts unless...
Overcoming a horrendous start, the Radcliffe crew came back strong in the second 500 meters yesterday to turn back two strong boats from UConn and Williams in a tune-up for next weekend's Sprints...