Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sitting at home one day." said plump, dimple-cheeked Susan Freiberg, "and all at once I had an idea for a tune...
...about $125 billion (converted to U.S. dollars and purchasing power). Of this, about fifty percent ($62.5 billion) probably goes for consumer items, thirty-five percent to capital investment, and fifteen percent to military uses. If the U.S. were to increase its trade with the U.S.S.R. to the tune of, for example, $200 million, which is practically a 200 percent rise, and if this trade were primarily in consumer goods, it would make a slight difference in the amount of resources the Kremlin could divert to industrial uses. If the Presidium seeks to sacrifice consumer convienience to industrial growth, it will...
...seize its listeners by the ears or by viscera either. Instead, it sounds neat, trim and attractive, with an overall flavor bland enough to permit the savoring of delicate, sonic side dishes. The first movement is sunny and almost muscular, the slow movement an exurbanite pastoral, whose plaintive tune (in solo strings and winds) is accompanied by brassy grunts and then by vague and charming counter-tunes. This movement also contains an enigmatic episode: a sudden passage of smashing violence, gone as suddenly as it came. The finale is in jocose, carnival spirit, but a carnival whose details...
Responding to the threat of merger, alumni pledged over $200,000 in six months to bolster the Institute's resources. M.I.T.'s fighting spirit was obvious when "Tech Night" at the Pops opened with an improvised song to the tune of John Brown's Body, which asserted that "you can't make crimson out of cardinal and gray...
...bands played one kind of marching tune: calypso.* Often calypso was considered vulgar, usually with good reason. But since 1920, when someone improvised a song called Class Legislation, calypso has been a kind of musical journalism, with such topical titles as The Destruction of Hurricane Janet, What's Federation?, The Princess Says...