Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the nomination was won. Carter stood beaming in Madison Square Garden while the band blared out Happy Days Are Here Again, the same tune he used to hear in the '30s when Mr. Earl would hitch up a radio to the car battery and the family would huddle around to listen to F.D.R.'s triumphs. In his acceptance speech, Carter returned to the themes of populism, soothing liberals who had doubted him and jarring moderates who had started to support him. The key passage...
...years of research for the book. Nine of them had anted up a total of $23,000 when she ran short of cash, and Shere was repaying the loans both in cash and in style. Said Virginio Del Toro, 48, a doorman and a patron to the tune of $15,000: "She was doing something somebody had to study. I only worried I would drop dead or something before she finished...
...Doetsch, who played the longest match of the day, triumphed in the fifth game to the tune of 10-15, 16-14, 15-11, 6-15, 15-12, while Steve Winthrop at number seven fell in four games for Harvard's one defeat...
Captain Bill Kaplan, who's playing quite well these days--probably as well as the second best collegiate squash player in both the nation and Cambridge can play--won to the tune of 15-8, 15-7, 15-7, obviously the result of a late night trip to Elsie's the night before...
...Daddy's Tune," Browne is so wrapped up in his message that he fails to focus his lyrics. The track examines his distant relationship with his own father, but Browne appears to be caught in a pool of quicksand--the more he tries to convey emotion, the more bogged down he becomes. When he writes that he's "searching for truth and bound for glory," he sounds like he's composing a national anthem. Though the cut begins on this solemn note, he further loses credibility as he switches to an up-beat jazz tempo accompanied by bleating horns...