Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior stalwart Chuck Johnson set the meet's tone by beating archrival Sergio Aguerro to the tape in the 100-meter high hurdles with a time of 15.1 seconds...
...diplomatic pressure on Israel, meanwhile, also seemed to be paying off. After talks with Ambassador Lewis, Begin suddenly muted his tone. Holding out an olive branch of sorts, the Prime Minister now declared: "We don't want war with Syria and we think Syria has reasons not to want war with Israel." Even more significant, perhaps, was Begin's statement that Israel had no official confirmation of any Syrian missile deployments in Lebanon. His refusal to acknowledge the presence of the missiles was possibly calculated to give Damascus a face-saving chance to remove them without appearing...
Topping an able cast, Backer and Weston give performances of impelling honesty. But the play lacks internal consistency of tone, and Allen has botched at least four essentials in the magic of theater-surprise, imagination, vision and revelation. -By T.E. Kalem
...hired right-wing columnists and a conservative editor to set the tone. Last January Nowl's abrasive proprietor ordered his magazine to publish an eight-page speech he had written on the dangers of Communist infiltration...
...most confusing is the book's inconsistent tone. LeBaron, with his nonscientist credentials as his trump, mixes complete naivete with brutal cynicism. This is the insider who still considers himself on the outside. By the end you can't tell whether he hated his first year, or if he would recommend Harvard Medical School to someone else. He can't seem to understand why anyone beside himself would ever even want to go to Medical School...