Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phones ring but the connection is dead. At other times three or four simultaneous conversations become scrambled on the same line. Fewer than 60% of all calls go through the first time they are dialed, and callers must often wait three seconds or more between tries for a dial tone...
...told, Giscard met for some three hours with President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. TIME Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski, who accompanied the French President from Paris and throughout his American visit, reports that the tone of the meetings was exceptionally friendly. The once frayed relations between the two countries have in fact improved remarkably since the friendly encounter between Ford and Giscard in Martinique at the end of 1974. The U.S. has relaxed its pressure on France to rejoin NATO, while France has quietly resumed its participation in NATO planning. The U.S. no longer criticizes Paris...
Unfortunately however, I found these articles were in part flawed by your neglect of basic criteria of good reporting. I consider some aspects of your writing critically uninformed, irresponsible and over-sensationalized. I suspect these are shortcomings of style and tone that have long characterized The Crimson...
There were other heroes in the meet. Sprinter Todd Hooks set the tone of the meet with three upset victories over Army star Jesse Owens, including a come-from-behind anchor leg in the 440 yard relay, the first running event...
With Martocchio setting the tone, the cabaret scenes are always suitably grotesque, sometimes stunningly so. Among the show's best numbers are "Two Ladies," an athletic celebration of a menage a trois complete with tumbling and the obligatory obscene gestures, and "Sitting Pretty (The Money Song)," featuring elaborate sequined, rhinestoned and feathered costumes and the talents of "Mary" (America) Lou Fackler as a red, white and blue drum-assed American dollar...