Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stafford also forecast a streamlined Parliament of "maximum efficiency," made capital out of one of Winston Churchill's most glaring faults, hatred of criticism. "I welcome the tone of criticism voiced in the House," he said. "Unity is not the same as uniformity...
...Music. Even tone-deaf people can identify Latin American dance music. Its earmark is a varied assortment of strange drums, dried vegetables, bits of wood, which can produce sound combinations as fascinating as static in a transatlantic broadcast, rhythms more intriguing than the clickety-clack of a 60-mile-an-hour express. Samba music is no exception. It has its own Brazilian instruments; some tick off a steady one-two-one-two, others counter with a galloping rhythm...
Meanwhile, the increasingly confident tone of Russian reports cast more doubt on whether the German army would be in shape for its long-heralded spring offensive on the eastern front. The Soviet accounts gained weight from Axis admissions of heavy and continuous Red Army attacks...
Suzuki-san probably would know who this speaker was: Major General Eugen Ott, German Ambassador to Tokyo. But he probably would not know why this foreigner's tone was so cordial, his eye so gleamy, his smile so quick. He would not know why General Ott was so warm whenever he mentioned the name of Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Singapore, the hero of this day of days...
...true that statements like the ones which made Dennis famous were made last year by many loyal isolationists. However, Dennis has not changed his views. Furthermore, the tone of his arguments has led many of his readers to suspect that he is strongly interested in an Axis victory. "To say that we cannot survive in a totalitarian world does not make sense," was the keynote of the full page advertisements which last May in the Crimson, the Yale News, and the Princetonian mocked the ability of the British to defend the status-quo against the Have-Nots, and suggested that...