Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the State Department abruptly sharpened its tone, told the Czech government to call home two of its own diplomats, the consul general in New York and a strangely authoritative embassy housekeeper in Washington...
Both groups started out with Harvard having a slight edge, and both finished up strongly, Harvard still out in front. It may have been my seat, it may have been that the acoustics were strange for the Princetons, but it seemed to me that the visitors lacked precision and tone in the beginning...
...Pinky" succeeds in portraying the subtleties that some other films on prejudice lacked. The tone of paternalism used by the whites to negroes, though sometimes almost imperceptible, carries the desired tension through the less exciting portions. It is this gentle touch, rather than the instances of overt and violent discrimination use to hammer home the meaning of prejudice to Pinky and the audience, that places the picture on a high artistic level...
...developed the habit of starting small bank accounts all over the U.S.; at one time he had 700 of them. Once Gene Fowler saw an eye-filling roll of bills, $4,000 worth, in Fields's pocket. Asked what the money was for, Fields answered in a tone that closed the discussion, "It's getaway money...
...seems that the "welfare state" would "control every human action from the womb to the tomb." Alice would doubtless remark in a thoughtful tone, "That's a great deal to make two words mean." And Alice being an unusually logical girl would think it odd that the people so alarmed about the government getting all mixed up in other people's business could at the same time be heartily in favor of high tariffs, and subsidies of farm prices, and subsidies of railroads, and subsidies of merchant shipping. Alice, having stayed too long in Wonderland, might not know that...