Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood three husky sergeants at arms. Newsmen, bored yet anxious, lounged on the chintz-covered sofas, listening for sounds from behind the guarded door. Occasionally there were voices, strident and angry; then long stretches of muffled buzz-buzz. Finally there came a burst of applause and then, to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a full-throated rendition of Solidarity Forever...
...alone were ominous. Since German-speaking defendants were to be tried by English, French and Russian-speaking judges, a battery of interpreters would simultaneously translate every word into the three other languages. Each person in court would get a pair of earphones and a dial with which he could tune in on any desired language. Whenever an interpreter fell behind the proceedings, a yellow light would signal a slowdown. If the interpreter got really snafued, a red light would halt the trial...
...Balance? Congress was not thereby converted to socialism. Its view was somewhat like that of London's cartoonist David Low, who sardonically depicted Attlee and two of his adjutants calling the tune for Public Ownership's dance with Private Enterprise (see cut). But Congress recognized Attlee's good will, applauded him generously. A truer test would come when Congress voted on the projected U.S. loan to Britain...
...overworked bus conductors and conductresses (clippies) decided to enforce a "no standing" rule during rush hours. Clerks and M.P.s trudged to work, tempers flared. Goaded by a bossy clippie, 60 medical students shooed her off her own bus while they sang "Oh, why are we waiting?" (to the tune of Oh, Come All Ye Faithful...
...many another bandleader has tried to imitate what Lombardo calls his organ tone, his publicity man calls "the sweetest music this side of heaven," and others call just this side of mooing. Imitators have had their men tune off key, nick their reeds and pour warm milk into the bells of their saxophones, but they have never quite hit it. Guy says his sweet simple music is "for people already in love or potentially in love. . . . We try not to displease anyone...