Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Military Intelligence in Singapore admitted, both to Brown and to a representative of the Ministry of Information, that the "pessimistic" tone of his broadcasts had been justified by the facts; also that the broadcasts had served to impress the U.S. with Singapore's predicament. Then why keep...
Very different in tone and emphasis was the "message to our fellow Christians" which the Federal Council had issued for World War II. Conspicuously omitting the 1917 declaration that America was fighting "to vindicate the principles of righteousness and the inviolability of faith as between nation and nation," the 1942 message said "we do not disclaim our own share in the events . . . which made it possible for these evil forces to be released," and urged that, "conscious, of our participation in the world's sin, we would be humble and penitent before God . . . and become His instruments for fashioning...
...Slander, unadulterated slander," was the tone of all the aggrieved swamis who called. Although they admitted Friedkin might be a fake, they one and all maintained that they themselves are representatives of an ancient and honorable art, "the world's oldest legitimate science...
...policy of Franklin Roosevelt in 1941 was not total defense, but all-aid-short-of-war-to-the-allies. That policy became obsolete on Dec. 7, but it gave its tone to business in 1941. Washington spent defense money at a record rate. A war industry was launched which made itself felt in the life of virtually every U.S. citizen. Some of them felt it as unemployment, the victims of priorities; but most of them felt it as an unexampled prosperity. The Administration's Cato, Walter Lippmann, was moved to characterize 1941 last week as "this disgraceful boom...
...just played around with him . . . had him walk a couple of dozen steps in 12 frames, then in eight . . . until I got just the right cockiness to it. ... When I finally got rolling on him, he was the easiest fellow I've ever done." These performances set the tone for all of Dumbo. Sequence Director Norm Ferguson merely sat down and listened to Oliver Wallace's and Frank Churchill's score for the pink elephant sequence, which Dumbo and Timothy view through champagne eyes, and "just let it come out of the music." Disney v. Mars. While...