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In order to acquire an ear for a tone of voice, the best thing is to hear it. Here is a poem called Tomb of lasis, written in 1899:
Any day now, the Federal Communications Commission will make a long-awaited ruling that could turn Washington, D.C., into a one-newspaper town. The agency is expected to decide whether or not Texas Multimillionaire Joe L. Allbritton, who bought a controlling interest in the stuffy, money-losing Washington Star (circ...
The size of the first sale is hardly reminiscent of 1972, when skillful Soviet buyers, working in deep secrecy, managed to acquire 19 million tons of grain at a bargain price that was officially subsidized by the U.S. Government. Largely as a result, wheat prices shot from less than $2...
Died. Wolf Ladejinsky, 76, Russian-born land reformer; in Washington, D.C. A specialist in Soviet and Asian farm policies, Ladejinsky was tapped by General Douglas MacArthur in 1945 to draw up a land reform bill for occupied Japan. The legislation he drafted emancipated Japan's tenant farmers enabling millions...
Both the hyperbole and the hypersensitivity of that statement are typical of Mrs. Gandhi, who came to power in 1966 after the sudden death of her father's successor as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri. In choosing Mrs. Gandhi, who had served briefly as Minister of Information and Broadcasting...