Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru was standing firm. He scolded the party members for their action: "You do not do me any credit. It will mean that I have acted casually and you have also acted casually." A deep feeling had been rising in him, Nehru said, "that something is out of tune in this country, a great many things are out of tune. The whole problem is how I can be more effective. I have come to the conclusion that it would be helpful to me and to the country if I could devote myself for a while to activity outside Parliament, outside...
...intricacies of such American classics as Kentucky Mountain Running Set, Paw Paw Patch, Beaux of Oak Hill. At their final Metropolitan appearance before leaving for this week's engagement in Montreal, they surprised and delighted their audience with a spirited rendition of the Virginia reel to the tune of Turkey in the Straw, then "la-la-laed" through a chorus of Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and bade farewell with shouts of the word that echoed Manhattan's verdict...
...have. With equal solemnity, Sociologist David Riesman (in an article co-authored by Auto Expert Eric Larabee) proclaims that "many can safely sample the jet-age aura by having a design 'based' on the Sabre jet-as the 1956 Plymouth. So, too, can the consumer be in tune with the future through his dashboard, which looks like an intergalactic control panel...
Russia as well as the U.S. for world tensions, even implied that Russia was guilty of "exploiting" her Communist allies. Even after Tito humbly changed his tune to something close to the Soviet line that all the world's troubles are caused by Western "imperialists," Khrushchev responded with what in the Communist world is a crushing insult-he refused to send a Russian delegation, only an observer, to the Yugoslav congress. Every other Soviet-bloc nation did likewise...
...twelve he was transferred to Roborough, a somewhat better-known school, where the dramatic society specialized in Gilbert & Sullivan. Since Alec could not (and still cannot) carry a tune, he shifted scenery. One day he ventured to say he wanted to be an actor. One of the masters sadly shook his head. "You'll never make an actor, Guinness...