Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yesterday's opening match, Harvard's Mariana Chilton set the tone for the day when she pulverized Yale's number four, Susan Schorr, in straight games...
There is a warrior lope that goes along with the song, although Moses does not give it the full treatment now. Chin and chest jut forward at the assertion of organ tone: Hunnnnnnh! Hunnnnnnnnh! The Masai know how to look dangerous, and sound dangerous. And the history of East African warfare confirms that they are dangerous. But the visitor wonders why the hands of the men are so oddly soft...
...story as developed by the state police investigation and dispensing considerable amounts of macabre station-house humor. He is also fond of old-fashioned hard- boiled detective prose: "Bill Bradfield avoided that man like a vampire avoids sunburn," and "as predictable as a Tijuana dog race." At times his tone grows weary, as if he were thinking, "How the hell did I ever get mixed up with these wackos and patsies?" Schwartz-Nobel is less imaginative and stylish in her handling of a sensational case with TV-movie potential. She also has bad taste, quoting...
...tone. The most significant difference was that...
...number-two match yesterday, Harvard's Rusty Ball whipped Rob Adams 15-5, 15-7, 15-10 to set the tone of straight-game victories for the over-powering Crimson...