Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting of the City Council last night, Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 explained amendments that slightly tone down zoning changes suggested in the group's original petition...
...with carved filigree windows swept by, seemingly unchanged in centuries."So, you're really going to Tambov," said a Moscow friend, surprised that I would be traveling to such a provincial and undeveloped place. "There's a Russian saying: the Tambov wolf is your comrade." I remembered his sneering tone as I stared at the flat landscape from the two- bunk compartment I was sharing with Yuri Shchekochikhin, a commentator from the Soviet weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta. So, you are heading off into the wilds of Russia? See for yourself how far the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have gone. An image...
...interesting choice of words in an officially atheist society, and A.A.'s teaching that members must learn to rely on a "higher power" creates an inevitable conflict for Moscow Beginners. Some of the members are uncomfortable with the group's religious tone; others, understandably, are afraid to tamper with the organization's time-tested tenets...
...good that at least they're writing about all this in the newspapers. Glasnost provides salvation from psychological destitution. But it's still a long way from physical evidence of perestroika. The gypsy cabdriver who drove us from the airport remarked in a melancholy tone of voice on the neglected roads, filled with potholes, over which we, swearing, were bouncing: "So have ended many great empires!" I was amazed at the daring and aesthetic exactness of his maxims. In my time, people didn't talk so freely...
...tone of Bush's remarks suggested the United States may attempt to exert pressure for compromise on Israeli Prime Minister Titzhak Shamir, who arrives in the U.S. tomorrow and confers with Bush on Thursday...