Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's showing in a traditionally Republican state may have a lot to do with Bayh's chances. The charges of liberalism--a term Quayle and company speak in the tone of voice Americans usually reserve for Bolshevism--probably will not destroy Bayh. But if the GOP presidential candidate carries Indiana by more than 350,000 votes... this is a coat-tails prospect Bayh's backers do not care to discuss...
Asked in the fourth debate whether the tone of his campaign was negative, O'Neal said he had tried to be positive. "If I wanted to resort to innuendo and smear," he noted," I'd be bringing up a drunk driving charge and how a Wendy's franchise was transferred in the secretary of state's office." He was referring to traffic charges brought against Dixon in California in 1977 and Dixon's management of a hamburger franchise regulated by his office...
...again and again Reagan had to spend precious time righting what he calls "this warmongering charge," and his replies had a petulant tone. In Cincinnati, he asserted: "The President seems determined to have me start a nuclear...
Their meeting changes the tone of Fallaci's writing--for several chapters she loses her cynical tone and conveys the terror and attraction this man raises in her. "It would be disastrous to accept your love and love you: I knew that with certainty, in an instant," she says after she first meets Alekos. But loving him was inevitable "because it overpowered the instinct of survival and the ambiguous snare of happiness...
Because she never married, Amy--people whispered everywhere--must have been a lesbian. Her poems, while rarely overtly referring to women, nevertheless were often distinctly sapphic in tone. Bursting fat, Amy was at the same time loud, outspoken, dictatorial and argumentative. Carl Sandburg once mentioned that, "to argue with her [was] like arguing with a big, blue wave." She chainsmoked Havana cigars in public. Her greatest offenses, though, seemed to be her ambition to become educated and to gain respect as a poetess--two things unspeakably improper for a woman in the early twentieth century, especially...