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Word: tuned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this tune, killing King was not a luxury. He needed the mission, he needed the concept of killing King to hold himself together. It gave him the cohesion he was utterly dependent on. It was not just a twisted ideal that led him on. It was a compulsive obsession, and he was having trouble sustaining it over the period of time he had set to accomplish his disparate plans ... Given the chain of circumstances of his life, killing King had become Ray's destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...limiting his book to a personality study of Loeb, he ignores the larger issues Loeb's power raises. In examining the roots of that power, it is not enough to explain that the Union Leader is the state's largest newspaper--if Loeb's polemics were completely out of tune with his New Hampshire readership, a rival newspaper might well have emerged. If there are economic factors which give the Union Leader a permanent corner on the market, what are they...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Live Loeb or Die | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...freshmen stormed back to wrest the momentum from the Warriors, pelting the enemy net to the tune of three unanswered goals...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Merrimack Saddles Freshmen With 6-4 Loss After Third Period Scoring Spree Snaps Tie | 1/20/1976 | See Source »

...campaign, Steve Ford, 19, will be stalking horses, dark and otherwise, in California. The President's youngest son has abandoned Utah State University and headed further west to work for California Horse Breeder George Texeria in Mission Viejo. "He found that he had plenty of extra tune in Utah," explained a White House spokesman last week. "He just couldn't find the kind of job he wanted." Denying the suggestion that Steve's move is really an attempt to leave college, the White House pointed out that he has enrolled at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 19, 1976 | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Twyla Tharp has been seriously watching movies starting from the tune that she worked as a carhop in drive-in theaters owned by her parents. A native of Indiana, she was named after a Midwestern pig-calling contestant known as Twila. "My mother thought Twyla would look good on a theater marquee," explains Tharp. Her ambitious mother also laid out a marathon course of piano, violin, viola, drum, baton-twirling, ballet and tap-dancing lessons that occupied Tharp's childhood. It all paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A Touch of Tharp | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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