Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson set the tone early, won the opening relay and never looked back on the way to a 76-70 first ever triumph against the Tigers...
...large brood, Hugh adopted a tone of remote and incomprehensible irony. His children came to believe that somehow they seemed to have "done him a concealed injury, to have stolen something from him, something they may have taken without knowing the wound they were inflicting...
Maintaining a light tone while she was writing for Let's Go was often difficult under these circumstances. Wachtell said. "I always had to resist the temptation to let my frustration come out on the pages, because most of the people I was writing for would be travelling for pleasure...
Ginsberg: Chanting more than music. Pound used to say "pay attention to the tone meaning of the vowels." In Greek you have the pitch. That's why people don't know how to chant Home: anymore because the oral tradition has been lost. And they have to figure it out from the diacritical marks. If you become sensitized to the pitch of the vowels you will begin to appreciate the consonants and bite them like Bob Dylan does, or as any great singer does. You also savor the vowels as physical marbles in your month and become more interested...
...season, Shula had reserved this awestruck tone for Dan Marino, outlavishing the writers in praise of the second-year quarterback with the "quick release." Players sometimes look at the great coaches with an expression that says, "As long as we have him, we're all right." But Shula had taken to gazing upon Marino this way. And after all, he had tossed 77 touchdown passes in two years. Against the 49ers, few Dolphins, certainly not Punter Reggie Roby, seemed quite themselves, but Marino was not horrible really, just human and 23. His most critical passes were, of all things, late...