Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after the gentle people of the Maidive Islands abolished their centuries-old sultanate and elected Amin Didi their first President (TIME. Jan. 12, 1953), they began to regret it. Amin Didi was chock-full of reform plans-he wrote a new anthem to the tune of Auld Lang Syne; he abolished purdah and designed a new Mother Hubbard for women to wear; he forced the men to elect women to the legislature; he built an elaborate handicraft shop, despite the fact that rarely more than a half dozen tourists a year visit the isolated island chain...
...Adenauer has the nerve to declare publicly that it was the German army and not the German people that capitulated, adding somewhat sinisterly, "and the world had better remember." The last time we heard that tune was when the man no German ever mentions nowadays proclaimed to a hysterical following that in 1918 it was the German people and not the German army that had surrendered . . . Don't let us in for a fit of collective amnesia again like after...
...third floor of a Greenwich Village house occupied by a group of unemployed actors and an organization dedicated to the preservation of American Indians. In lieu of rent, Bethke played the piano for the society's weekly meetings. As he recalls, "it was always the same tune - Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...accused him of seducing their wives, 44-year-old Rubi was at the very zenith of his career. During July, in Deauville, he met Barbara. By now, of course, she had heard of him and his accomplishments. He, of course, had heard of her and her enormous for tune. "He told me," she explained, "that he loved me. But he doesn't remember. He never asked me to marry him then. He just told me he loved me, but I didn't believe him. I have loved him ever since...
...year and a half later, in the spring of 1953, the HTG was to change its tune...