Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rejection Front. Despite such arguments, Rabin will still have a hard tune convincing many Israelis. A poll taken by the newspaper Ha'aretz showed that 47.6% of his countrymen expressed dissatisfaction with his efforts, while only 37% gave approval. Though he could probably push the proposed agreement through the Knesset, he would have opposition from left, right and even the center of his own Labor Party. "This settlement bodes no good for Israel," says Zevulun Hammer, a member of the right-wing National Religious Party. "We get no political compensation for giving up territory. We expose ourselves...
...writes most of her own songs, filling pads of paper with words. Sometimes a fragment bursts into several paragraphs. When that happens, Phoebe hums a tune and sets it to music. Most of her early compositions are sad, reflecting disappointment in herself, especially with her looks...
...rushes through the air, Ford can pick up a radio telephone to speak to anyone in the world, his voice bouncing off a satellite. Since these conversations can be overheard by those who tune in on the right frequency, Ford also has available a teletype system whose secure method of communicating with the ground is classified top secret. In an atomic age, the President cannot afford to be out of touch for as much as a split second...
Wagner knew exactly what he was doing at Bayreuth. Heard in quick succession, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure and Siegfried have a staggering cumulative effect. By the tune one settles in for the 4½-hour finale, Die Götterdämmerung, the ear reverberates with leitmotivs; and Wagner's gods, earthlings, dwarfs and dragons seem familiar, necessary, among the mind's permanent emotional reference points. One gasps at the death of Siegfried, even if he is the sort who will take a drink from anybody. One worships Brünnhilde as the lover and idealist...
...Lisbon, which in the past has generally favored the M.P.L.A., was not anxious to get involved. But last week in an emergency meeting, Lisbon's Revolutionary Council agreed to send 2,000 reinforcements to beef up its 24,000 troops still in the territory. At the same tune, Portuguese Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes flew to Luanda to plead for peace...