Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harmless, humorous tone of the play drastically alters when Don announces that he won't be able to make their golf date next week; as a member of the State Department, he has been assigned to pick up Napoleon Duarte up from the airport and escort him around town. For Angie, this disclosure sparks off both empty self-pity ("my whole life revolves around these weekends") and vague, shrill accusations against the Salvadoran leader. An unlucky combination, but Don's replies are no better, consisting mainly of lines like "Women.." and "It must be the bad time of the month...
...besides," my informer added in a confidential tone, "your odds are better with golf...
Although pagers can provide tone or voice messages, many drug merchants prefer the digital version that displays a caller's return telephone number. They are also partial to pagers that vibrate silently rather than giving off an audible signal. Dealers sometimes use fronts to sign with a paging service to thwart easy tracing. But not always: "We do get some strange or spooky clients in here," says one Miami beeper salesman. "I've never seen so many people who didn't have driver's licenses, even though I just saw them drive up in a Mercedes...
...Libya, a Soviet client, Moscow called off a summit-planning visit by Shevardnadze to Shultz that had been scheduled for May. Each side kept grumbling that the behavior of the other raised grave doubts about how much it wanted either a summit or an agreement of any kind. The tone of the superpower exchanges began to change over the summer, as a variety of exchanges between the President and the Soviet leader encouraged arms experts in Geneva to make solid progress. But then the Zakharov-Daniloff matter exploded at the end of August, giving each side a perfect excuse...
...have seized on an INF agreement as an excuse rather than a precondition for a summit. When one American journalist remarked on the difficulties of separating an INF pact from the negotiations on long-range strategic weapons and Star Wars, a high Soviet official replied in an almost plaintive tone, "Yes, but we need something...