Word: toneless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writes letters; no authentic records of the past are permitted; no memory is safe from the skilled glance of the Thought Police. Slowly but surely, the old English language, with its treasury of dangerous thoughts and mischievous expressions, is being steamrollered flat and converted into "Newspeak"-a toneless, crimethink-less cablese...
...nine-man band made sweet music that sounded like two marshmallows meeting headon. Its shuffling, danceable rhythm treacled out of a fair piano, a soggy sax, a toneless trumpet, a cooing clarinet and a bass. The feature acts, a good old square dance and the numbers the boys in the band clowned up in trick hats and phony mustaches, were strictly corny. But last week, while many another U.S. nightclub with tonier entertainment was as empty as the inside of a kettledrum, Chicago's old standby, the Blackhawk Restaurant, couldn't find room for all the customers...
...Flat & Toneless. When budget night came, External Affairs Secretary Louis St. Laurent moved into Abbott's seat to let the Finance Minister have the front-row place of honor next to the P.M. The House was only two-thirds full. M.P.s trickled in as Abbott started to read his 14,000-word speech. As he recited the hard facts of the nation's financial life, his voice got flat and toneless. More & more M.P.s left the chamber for a smoke...
Darkness crept into the huge courtroom as the toneless voice (which once sang resonantly in the Serbian mountains) droned on & on. For the first time in six weeks the crowd of a thousand spectators ceased their hissing. They listened intently to Draja Mihailovich's last defense. He spoke with calm and sincerity, as if he knew that history would heed him even though Communist Tito's court would...
...face was often grossly edematous with the eyes completely closed. There was a strong tendency for the edema to shift with gravity. . . . Unnatural creases appeared [and the expression became] toneless and gloomy . . . quite repulsive. . .. . The loss of the normal silky luster of Chinese hair in someone who was seen before and after several months of slow starvation was quite striking...