Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gendre and Edwy Plenel revealed that two frogmen had placed mines on the Rainbow Warrior before escaping. Their orders, the paper said, had to have come from a high level within the government, since none of the military figures involved would credibly have acted on their own. The tone of the articles was so authoritative that the government did not even bother to deny them. At the weekly Cabinet meeting the following day, Mitterrand complained strenuously that the press was uncovering facts that he had not been given by his own officials. Two days later Defense Minister Charles Hernu resigned...
...every day, never realizing that one company makes them all. While its products are household names, the firm, which had sales during its last fiscal year of $9 billion, is low-keyed, given to such simple boasts as "We sell more kinds of food and more of it." That tone may soon change. Last week General Foods was taken over by Philip Morris (1984 revenues: $13.8 billion), whose Marlboro man and Virginia Slims woman exemplify marketing pizazz...
...hours before delivering it to Apple on Sept. 17. "The company's recent reorganization," Jobs wrote, "has left me with no work to do and no access even to regular management reports. I am but 30, and want still to contribute and achieve." Apparently intended to arouse sympathy, the tone of the letter and its public release struck some Apple executives as a clear attempt to embarrass them. Said Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder who left the company last February to establish his own electronics firm: "Steve can be an insulting and hurtful guy." One wag dubbed Jobs...
While agreeing with Wong that the event was a worthwhile idea, Melvin also criticised the general quality of the readings as "poor." Many of the readers assumed a drawing room tone, which might have sufficed in a library but which could not keep the attention of listeners under a glaring mid-afternoon sun. The few instances of enthusiasm and creative eccentricity on the part of the reader elicited warm response from an otherwise listless audience...
...plaintive self-indulgence of "Horse's Neck" is reminiscent in tone of some of Townshend's solo musical efforts. When writing and performing with The Who, Pete comes across as a team-player, a rough-and-tumble rock star who would ringlead the type of debauchery described in "Long Live Rock," in which "someone takes his pants off and the rafters knock" and a "fifty-inch cymbal falls and cuts the lamps...