Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which most demands of social intercourse can be met by an ability to tune a television set, Miss Carlyle's methods might seem eminently sound. "The strawberries in the field, the blueberries on the bush, the clams in the sand, the fish in the sea will remain where they are unless you go out and pick them," said Miss Carlyle...
Cause to Sweat. The prime blame for the leak should have been put on Howard Handleman, International News Service bureau chief in Tokyo, who wrote the first dispatch announcing that fresh U.S. troops had arrived in Korea to the tune of two brass bands. Handleman's report violated a correspondents' agreement to wait for an official release from General Headquarters, ignored a GHQ ruling against revealing the arrival of new units until they were in action. After he filed, U.P. put out the story also. Said Handleman in self-justification : "I stand on what I file. If they...
There are several receiving sets on the market. A typical one has two needles for the pilot to watch: a "to-or-from" needle and a "left-or-right" needle. The pilot's first step in "omnigation" is to tune his set to the nearest omni's frequency and wait for it to identify itself by voice or code. Then he looks at his to-or-from needle, which tells him at once whether he is heading toward or away from the omni...
...left-or-right needle comes to rest in the center of its scale. Then the pilot looks at the dial and reads off his directions from it. By keeping the needle centered, he can follow the "track," as pilots call it, directly to the omni station. Or he can tune in another omni and find his direction from it too. The two tracks, drawn on a map, give at their crossing the position of the airplane...
...hitting a jag-time tune...