Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys on the battlefront don't keep union hours, nor do they get extra pay for overtime. ... I might remind Mr. Smathers that servicemen also pay taxes-out of the salaries the gentleman insists come from taxes paid by him and the rest of the oppressed. His tone implies that the services are akin to charitable organizations, which he as a taxpayer is forced to support. Shall we forgo our salaries so that he does not have to pay the taxes from which such salaries are derived...
...MacArthur officers, Lieut. General George C. Kenney and Major General Richard K. Sutherland, had just returned to Australia from staff talks in Washington. The tone of General MacArthur's prayer indicated that he was not to be allowed enough power to drive up through Japan's southwestern bases, to the Philippines and Bataan...
Sikorski had his reasons for such inflammatory talk, but both the time and the tone were ill chosen. He and his Poles had been aroused by: 1) Russia's refusal to promise the restoration of Poland's eastern frontiers; 2) recent signs that Moscow is growing more & more distrustful of the Sikorski Government, which until lately seemed to be on good terms with Stalin; 3) the lack of any recent evidence that Great Britain and the U.S. will back Poland's claims against the Russians. In the making was a row which might easily wreck any hopes...
...Rich in reputation, ripe in years, the Times is respected because it is thorough, dignified and decent. No one reads it for the lively approach. The Times has sometimes almost seemed to preen itself on its dowagerlike lack of humor, its presentation of all news in the same flat tone of voice...
There are Pete Johnson and Al Ammons, two of the original boogie boys. If you're tired of hearing the tone-deaf boogie players who haunt the Common Rooms, you might enjoy hearing the stuff played the way it should be played...