Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patient Endurance. In the current Journal of the American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Kegel spells out a long list of symptoms that may mark this condition: bladder weakness in adolescents and young adults, poor muscle tone during pregnancy, poor recovery of muscle tone after delivery, bladder disturbances in older age groups, and poor sensory perception for women during sexual intercourse. Often, he believes, "women patiently endure [these] discomforts throughout the best years of their lives...
...Dinah Shore. The influence of Anita O'Day is noticable in Conner, but she is gradually evolving a style that is completely her own. Four records with Bethlehem started her on her way, followed by two LP's for Atlantic. The first (1228) exhibits her peculiar dry but throaty tone in some distinctly modern arrangements. The second (Atlantic 1240) is almost exactly the opposite--slow melancholy songs with lush orchestrations by Ralph Burns. While the latter record may become the more popular, the dry upbeat quality of the former is Chris Connor's real contribution to modern jazz. Perhaps...
Still playing an inside game in world Communism, Tito had hopes that the anti-Stalinists in the Kremlin will eventually triumph, though the wounded tone of his speech indicated that the Stalinist gang which is "acting so destructively" is now dominant in Russia, and the result will be "difficult times ahead." He mentioned no names, but Russian specialists identify the old guard as dominated by Molotov, Kaganovich and Mikhail Suslov...
Tracing his associations to stories of his childhood and mythology, he was able to explain how the particular symbols chosen could create the emotional tone surrounding the disaster of a fire...
...undoubtedly true that American school children do prefer holidays and that some teachers are unhappy with their jobs. But the tone of the lesson is not quite objective...