Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perpetuating alliances [that] have been formed between money and politics." Among other things, he repeated his endorsement of the idea of a national health system-an expensive proposition for an anti-Government candidate to advance in an anti-Government year. Afterward, Cartel pronounced his acceptance address deliberately Populist in tone; asked if he considered himself a Populist, he replied, "I think...
...Sugar Blue, a black harmonica player who plies his tunes in Greenwich Village, may be the best itinerant musician in New York. Around Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, less prominent and more indigent fiddlers than those indoors make Brahms burst in midair, usually by tuning their violins up a tone to make the sound more brilliant...
Herzog's tough and moving address set the tone of the arguments that the U.S. and other delegations would be making as the debate continued this week: that charges of Israeli aggression against Uganda, which actively aided the skyjackers, were preposterous, that the real issue facing the U.N. was what to do about international terrorism...
...about sports and politics and polished short stories by such topflight authors as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Gingrich resigned in 1945. Returning to a floundering magazine in 1952 as its publisher, he hired some freewheeling young editors and gave the magazine its characteristic bold, jaunty tone...
...tone of raffish candor, meant to be ingratiating, often surrounds such performances. The master of self-proclaimed raffishness is Hunter S. Thompson, 39, Rolling Stone national-affairs correspondent and the author of one book on Hell's Angels and two others with "fear and loathing" in their titles...