Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's tone left no doubt that if he himself finds it desirable, he would, as he remarked approvingly of Stalin, "do what, is necessary"-whether the hand falls on the restless writer or the intriguing Politburocrat...
...Russian car, the Zil, will go into production soon to replace the Packard-like Zis as the Reds' top luxury model. Billed as an all-Red design, the seven-passenger Zil still owes plenty to Detroit: two-tone colors, wrap-around windshield and bumpers, automatic shift. The price, though, is strictly Russian: 70,000 rubles...
This is to express my surprise at the unexpectedly subdued tone of your latest report on civil rights and Senator Russell. You almost, but never quite stated the South's case. It is simply this: strangers who are both totally ignorant of, and completely unsympathetic toward our society simply must keep their big, wide mouths and their big, fat paws out of our personal problems if we are ever to solve them...
...other questioners dug into Hoffa's strange business deals and his unsavory connections with hoodlums, the tone changed. Wary of the pitfalls of wiretaps whose contents he could not foretell, Hoffa began to get the kind of amnesia that hoods have long resorted to-before the era of the Fifth Amendment. To every implicating question there came an equivocating answer, or a variety of dazzling disclaimers, e.g., "to the best of my recollection," "I just don't remember," "I don't recall." Listening to this performance for hours, even easy-going Irving Ives exploded. Shooting a grumpy...
...Well," said the announcer, his tone lush and breathless, "Esther just doesn't know what to do! She feels that she owes her husband Jack nothing; he hurt her in every way one person can. But now he's in need; he's alone and sick! What would you advise Esther if you were Ma? Well, Esther went over to see Ma, and now at about half past 5 in the late afternoon we find them on Ma's front porch. Listen...