Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embassy their favorite battleground, gone too the armed youth cadres that had marched daily through Djakarta, singing America, Satan of the World. Demonstrators still surged through the streets, but they wore the yellow jackets of the Anti-Communist Students Action Command, and the song they sang-to the tune of Michael Row the Boat Ashore-was "Sukarno should be pensioned...
...cooking and wash his socks, turned out to be a ruble-earning poetess. From Moscow last week came a check for $95 in royalties paid by Izvestia, which printed a ban-the-bomb ballad Mary had written some years ago. The poem, to be sung to the tune of After the Ball...
...station toward tougher camps, V.C. Tower proved as palatable as an enemy prison can reasonably be expected to be. Dodson and Eckes ate their meals (rice laced with snails, caterpillars or snake meat) with the camp director and their guards, played cards and sometimes sang (a favorite tune: The Animals' We Gotta Get out of This Place). Attempts were made to interrogate them, but when they refused to answer, the V.C. did not press them further. A specialist in acupuncture stuck pins in their scalps by way of a medical examination, and a political cadre dropped...
...myself hidden." A confessional impulse of such intensity was something new in English writing. "Boswell scanned the swarming variety in his own nature," says Pottle, "with the pleased detachment of a naturalist watching a sectioned anthill." But he also scanned life with a quick delighted eye. "I can tune myself so to the tone of any bearable man I am with," he wrote proudly, "that he is as much at freedom as with another self...
...hope that the Senate-House conference would drop the compulsory aspect of the bill. In fact, its bellicose wording was clearly aimed at establishing an extreme bargaining position from which Rivers could retreat a little if McNamara also compromised. Nonetheless, the report warned: "The committee intends to play the tune to which the legitimate power of Congress will march back up Capitol Hill...