Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subsidies to private institutions would be a magic-wand solution, if only certain considerable disadvantages were not attached. Such a program would be expensive, create administrative perplexities in distributing the funds, and would almost certainly result in some degree of government control. "He who pays the piper calls the tune." Educators fear that the government could easily impose specifications on what is done with the money it donates, and also that money-doling legislatures might frown on universities whose professors speak out of turn. Diversity is one of the great features of our educational system: a college or university must...
...London's Paddington station his tune changed. His secretary met him with the news that Labor's lead was slipping fast. Bevan sucked in his breath, grunted: "I don't like it." Then he said: "We don't seem to have much success wooing the middle classes, do we? You can't woo them; they want a strong man to lead them...
...even in Plainview Lavern Roach still heard the roar of the crowd and the money-jingling song of the promoters. Last week, after three tune-up fights along the comeback trail, Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Roach shuffled his feet in the rosin box at Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena and waited for the bell. The memory of what "Cerdan did to him had apparently faded; he insisted that he felt as strong and fast as ever...
...Then to Pawnshops. In the coal-grimed hills of his native South Wales, Attlee's heir apparent, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, orated to the tune of fair shares for all. "We've proved you can run the mines without the mine owners," he said, "but you can't run 'em without the miners. I only ask you to look into your lives and decide for yourselves whether you are better...
...material turned out by Godfrey's five writers is channeled through Mug, who sits beside Arthur on most of his shows. Items that she finds amusing are passed on. He has great faith that her judgment is in tune with that of "the people." She also acts as a buffer between Godfrey and the advertising men. "Whenever anything's suggested to Arthur, Mug always says no," observes CBS President Frank Stanton. "That gives him time to think. If he decides to do it, he can say he finally talked Mug around. If he decides...