Word: toned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return to Washington. The President and his advisers got ready to draft the State of the Union Address, the Budget Message and the President's Economic Report. Written within sight of the sand, sun and sea, they would still have to bear, for delivery in January, the proper tone of heaviness and contention, so necessary to state messages...
...critics, like other critics during her 14-city tour, had mixed reactions. The Times-Herald found that "the fresh and brilliant luster of two years ago has been exchanged for a warmth and depth of tone that the music lovers found exciting." The Washington Post admitted some improvement but added tartly: "Miss Truman is too much of a vocal beginner to appear in public...
...goal of a general education provides a tone of tough-minded curiosity with the traits of mind; to think effectively, to communicate thought, to make relevant judgements, and to discriminate among values...
...outfit a $2,000,000-a-year business was partly luck, mostly hard work and sound business sense. When he got a chance to head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...
...Haven songsters presented a series of short, snappy pieces with a tone perfectly suited to the occasion. The two standbys, "Little Innocent Damb" and "The Deitsch Company," complete with yodels, were sung with the usual glee...