Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week workmen were yanking the wire trees and make-believe houses off many camouflaged war plants. The makeup job had been costly: full-blown protective concealment of 37 vital plants had cost $22,319,274. Other money went for simpler tone-down work or "disruptive painting" at smaller plants, antiaircraft posts, airfields. In the heat of its enthusiasm for plenty of camouflage, the Corps of Engineers gave out contracts for disguising fields hundreds of miles inland...
...Ghilini has yet to prove that his records can compete in tone quality with the best recordings on wax. But he thinks that, as a home recorder or as a commercial dictograph, his machine will have no trouble competing with the wire recorder and tape recorder...
...Kumamoto," said Captain Bach to the sergeant. Then he turned to the prisoner and asked in a more personal tone: "Kumamoto? Where about in Kumamoto...
...portraying the hollowness of his racketeer-hero's life. But it was not until the crash had turned his New York playground into an "echoing tomb" where "cocktail parties [rang] with [cries of] 'Shoot me, for the love of God, someone shoot me!' " that his tone grew truly grim. Even so, he still had money, good looks, devoted friends, popularity. His passion for work continued ; he sold stories to the richer magazines; he went to work in Hollywood...
...czar has a small staff of 94. His chief assistants are General Counsel Ed Prichard, onetime law clerk to Justice Frankfurter, physically slimmed down from his baby elephant proportions; ex-WPB planner Bob Nathan, who lends a New Deal tone to the office and an appearance of Neanderthal man to the staff; and mild, quiet Paul L. Kelley, Vinson confidant for 20 years, one of whose duties is to make out Tax Expert Vinson's income-tax return (Vinson's salary...