Word: tonelessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Making the event seem as unremarkable as possible, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd announced to the House of Commons in his most toneless voice last week that "the governments of the United Arab Republic and the United Kingdom have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations at the level of chargé d'affaires." Harried, tight-lipped Selwyn Lloyd is the last survivor in office of the luckless foursome of Eden, Lloyd, Mollet and Pineau, who together planned the ill-fated invasion of Suez...
Triumphant Boom. When time came for L.B.J. to speak, his refurbished oratorical style surprised even his friends. Gone was the perfunctory, toneless reading; he spoke slowly, ran the scale from a confidential whisper to a triumphant boom (for future reference, an aide in the audience noted where he talked too fast and where too slowly). But more redolent of candidacy was his message. Lyndon demanded (triumphant boom) Democratic leadership and action in 1960 to save America. Then he offered (confidential whisper) examples of such action: "Hawaiian statehood had been on the calendar for 40 years-and a Democratic Senate passed...
...standards to the twelve-year-old level that they insist television has induced in the U.S. But other millions wait like a huge fifth column, eager for the day when they can switch their allegiance and their TV dials to multichannel reception and to something more stimulating than the toneless, grey gruel fed them...
With his old-fashioned gold spectacles planted firmly on his nose, Socialist Attlee spoke in his flat, toneless voice. The friendship of the U.S. was essential, he said. But "if there are differences, they should be stated." His theme was that vigorous U.S. policies in Asia might rile the touchy Communists and set off a world war with H-bombs. Said Attlee: "We are as anti-Communist as the U.S. . . . We oppose aggression, we oppose Communist infiltration tactics, we recognize the need for adequate strength; but we stand for peaceful coexistence...
That afternoon the President's press conference was crowded. Truman entered in a grinning, joshing mood, but by the time he was ready for his big announcement, his voice was toneless. The Attorney General, he said, had resigned. And James P. McGranery, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, would take his place...