Word: toneless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patients who lose the larynx are cancer victims. These number about 6,000 a year in the U.S., and more than half of them learn to speak again by swallowing huge gulps of air. When they bring it up, it makes the throat muscles vibrate at a fixed, almost toneless pitch, in what Dr. William W. Montgomery of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary calls "an educated burp." Every time Surgeon Montgomery has done a laryngectomy, he has longed for a way to give the patient something better than this burping speech. He saw the results of brave attempts...
There are, of course, the statesmanly moments. Eschewing eyeglasses, Lyndon put on contact lenses and, in a toneless, reflective television appearance, told the country that the events in Communist China and Moscow were "large and full of meaning," but "they do not change our basic policy." Later in the week, he told newsmen that "divisions and suspicions among our people will only open the doors for those adversaries who seek to divide us and to weaken our leadership. There must be no misunderstanding of America's purpose and there must be no miscalculation of America's will...
...Know-Where." In New York City, Johnson got word of the Jenkins case, delivered his toneless speech and next night, after a day of upstate campaigning with Bobby Kennedy, went...
...holds them available for questioning. From the broker's telephone, an extra line runs to the computer. After pressing a button to activate the line, the broker merely dials the code numbers of the stock in which he is interested. In a second the computer answers in a toneless but pleasant voice. It repeats the stock's code letters, then gives the latest information-the bid price, the high...
Whops & Skeletons. The opening program, last month, was a shocker; lulled by Beethoven's Second Symphony, the audience was suddenly jolted by the whapping of wood blocks and the toneless horn-blowing of Yannis Xenakis' Pithoprakta. The Greek composer's work was so radical that this first U.S. performance sounded something like skeletons dancing in a wind tunnel. The audience found Bernstein's comments condescending. "A lot of mathematical formulas which I cannot follow," he said of the composition...