Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These disasters shaped the mood of the delegates convened at Nanking for China's first National Assembly. Out of the clamor of more than 2,500 peoples' delegates -talking, questioning, accusing, cursing-arose the authentic voice of China. Its tone was laden with tragic discontent, and with something close to despair...
...based mostly on a quasi-review of a book which appeared two years ago. And the conclusion--that students and faculty should somehow gain control of University policies--is as breezily vague as the unqualified condemnation of America's Puerto Rican "imperialism" in the article that follows. This general tone of militant outrage, coupled with the total absence of any attempt at objectivity, makes "The New Student" more of a screeching political pamphlet than an undergraduate magazine honestly out to interest--and persuade--the student body...
Over Finland's state-controlled radio Paasikivi himself set the sugary tone. Said he: "We can look with confidence toward the future." In Moscow, Prime Minister Pekkala had already thanked the Soviet Union for its "benevolent attitude." Editors and politicians took the official cue. Finland, which had wanted no treaty at all, found itself rejoicing at having made the "best possible deal under the circumstances...
...tone of the day was set by Philosopher J. B. Kozak, who taught at Ohio's Oberlin College in World War II. Said Kozak, obviously not speaking for his 17 purged colleagues: "We accept the direction taken by this great development [i.e., the Communist coup]." Then President Eduard Benes gave the university a new charter to replace the one that the Germans had destroyed, and made a pathetic little speech about freedom. Outside, in the public square, amplifiers relayed the catch in Benes' voice. There were more cops than citizens in the square...
...pleased with the progress of the team, as it rounds out its next-to-last week of spring practice. He is surprised at the amount of spirit shown by everyone. Candidates started the training period with so much pep that Valpey had to tone down practice sessions, keeping them quiet as possible, so that players could concentrate on absorbing the fundamentals of the Crisler system...