Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disturbances and his well-oiled machine has brought more federal funds to the city. But his political use of the city's thousands of employees and his failure to funnel money either north or south of his pet projects exemplify the machine brand of politics he practices. To the tune of a million dollars in campaign spending, White wants to be the Richard Daley of the East, a mimicry that Boston should not endure...
...frustration. "It may require an external shock to set it straight," he says. "It may be a major foreign policy setback, and then the public will insist that we have cohesion in Government. I just hope such a shock is not fatal. The 1980s will be a tune of severe peril...
...publisher, the godfather of the radio and film March of Time series and the longest tenured president of Time Inc. (1939 to 1960). With the exceptions only of Luce and Hadden, Roy Edward Larsen, who died last week at 80, was the person most responsible for the destiny of Tune...
...from ushers when you run behind the court carrying your $3.50 plastic-enclosed chef's salad. You don't get burned by the sun or soaked by the rain. You don't hear the cheers that drift over from Shea Stadium. And there's always a technician waiting to tune out the noise when a jet from LaGuardia thunders...
...things out for yourselves"), but ends up being crucified anyway. To make matters worse, one of his fellow sufferers on Golgotha is one of those awful people who grow only more cheerful as the situation becomes grimmer. He insists on leading the condemned in choruses of a Broadway-style tune, The Bright Side of Life, as they hang from their crosses...