Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task of Wendell Willkie's acceptance was almost as great-it was to challenge Franklin Roosevelt without intensifying class and party hostilities, without plunging the U. S. into a desperate political fight over foreign policy, without arousing the bitterness that would weaken U. S. defense. There was a tone to be set for a critical campaign. And there was a huge, hot and widely traveled crowd that would be listening...
...readers, Jorgen Thestrup mysteriously disappears, and Madame. Dorthea divides her time between her children, household duties, settling the estate, and flashbacks on her married life. All these domesticities are reported in an abundance which Tolstoy could have made wonderful and which Sigrid Undset's high-grade Dorothy Dix tone of voice makes tedious...
...their sleeves-from gentle effleurage (stroking) to kneading and tapotement (percussion), which includes hacking, slapping, beating, tapping. In cases of sprains and fractures, skillful, restrained massage relieves pain, reduces swelling, stimulates circulation. It also soothes arthritis victims. Belly-rubs are good for constipation caused by lack of muscle tone in the digestive tract...
...sapphire-tipped pickup will play a disc 700 times without damage; that the sapphire will survive 30,000 to 40,000 playings-about eight years of normal use. At a Manhattan demonstration, the pickup was dropped sharply upon a record, scraped roughly across its surface, made no scratch. Tone quality: about the same as in other mass-production machines...
...than Jazzdrummer Gene Krupa's. With his whole band massed behind him, the Brigadier twirls his drumsticks faster & faster, whirls them over his head, down to his ankles throughout the number. He can catch his sticks at any beat he wants, change pace with offbeat effects, shade his tone from a crash to a whisper...