Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to the Town Hall. There, in the intermission of a barn dance, Mr. Buell made a pre-campaign speech-a speech which, because it touched not on local issues but on the whole meaning of Congress today, had implications far beyond Massachusetts' First District. In a tone reminiscent of the feeling of Our Town, Candidate Buell said...
...Time is Now. Moscow knows this, and Moscow's voice changed its tone this week. Its cry was still the same: that the U.S. and Great Britain must open a second front in Europe, and open it soon. Not only the tone, but the words were different; and the differences reflected the mounting urgency of Russia's need and peril...
...somehow it glorifies the Army. It catches the right tone: combines professional training and teamwork with a roaring, youthful zip. If its humor falters, its gaiety never flags. If it lacks sophistication, it makes up for it in lustiness...
Nathalia Crane, famed child-poet of the late '20s, joined the faculty of Manhattan's Hunter College, as a lecturer on "rhythm, meter, rime, tone color, diction, imagery, emotion and imagination in poetry." Now 28, she declared: "It's the first time any poet has had a chance to divulge all the secrets of poetry in a classroom...
...tide of fighting in Russia and Egypt, the tone of talk in Washington and London made it clear to Australia last week that one of its worst fears was realized. Australia had become a secondary, rather than a second, front. Obviously Britain and the U.S. were headed toward a second front in Europe, not in the Pacific, leaving Australia for the moment to hold a purely defensive position with the aid of U.S. soldiers and supplies already there. In the opinion of United Nations strategists, Australia could do it, though none, least of all General Douglas MacArthur, was expected...