Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member institutions do not amuse "superfluous 18-year-old" students. Average age in community colleges nationally is now over 28. Many students are adults and senior adults. More than half are already employed and attend college part tune to upgrade skills...
...airbase near Saigon. But by last week, the airlift was growing increasingly dangerous. Artillery shells and rockets closed Tan Son Nhut airport Monday morning. Next day a U.S. C-130 transport was hit by a rocket on the runway and burst into flames as the crew escaped. A short tune later, two U.S. Marine corporals guarding the U.S. defense attache's compound at Tan Son Nhut were killed by Communist artillery...
...that tune, tempers were frayed in Washington as well as Saigon. Martin had drawn up a list of 500 Vietnamese to be evacuated; he refused to leave until all were safely gone. His delay prompted one Administration official to quip, "Martin got all 600 of his 500 Vietnamese out." Finally, at 5 p.m. Washington tune-it was then 5 a.m. in Saigon-Kissinger told the President that Martin was closing down the embassy and destroying its communications equipment. Minutes later, a helicopter broadcast the message: "Lady Ace Zero Nine, Code Two is aboard." Lady Ace 09 was the chopper...
...though in that case events as well as second opinions helped produce the turnabout. Basically, conflicting demands are being made of the President. "He faces a peculiar dilemma," says a mayor who has met him. "The country wants a human, open, responsive, all-American-fellow President. At the same tune it needs a strong, dynamic leader...
...Meeropol boys offer no new evidence that might clear their parents' name. Many of the Rosenbergs' letters have been published before. Some were circulated to generate sympathy during the long appeal process. Tune has not been kind to Ethel's and Julius' prose, either. Embarrassingly personal passages about the torments of separation from each other and from their children bleed profusely into the strident hyperbole of 1930s left-wing rhetoric. An occasional sentence survives questions of guilt, innocence and politics. On a visit to Sing Sing, the older Michael vented his ten-year...