Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the New Leader: the Mexican police have discovered that the NKVD is now trying to liquidate Jackson; the operation is in charge of a little-publicized U.S. woman Communist who lives in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, f Translated and completed with surprising fidelity to Trotsky's tone and style by Charles Malamuth, onetime teacher of Russian at the University of California, onetime United Press Moscow Bureau chief...
...editor gave the prize to one with a more wistful tone. Wrote Minnie Turnell, who at 45 has been married 27 years, raised three children: "I've often dreamed what it would be like to go away alone and be in a hotel and, for awhile, worry about nobody else. . . . If I had a holiday like that, even for only a week, I could remember it with sweetness for the rest of my life...
...great and truly glorious thing" in helping to fight it to the end, World War III would be "someone else's war" (an Anglo-Russian war he suggests), and none of our business. Only a few pages in Top Secret lack an argumentative tone-notably a graphic chapter of Ingersoll's own D-day experiences on Utah Beach and beyond. The rest is largely impressions of and reactions to British motives and bad manners, pointed up with notes on high headquarters life and praise for General Omar N. Bradley...
Coloured with the death of man. Such songs as On your midnight pallet lying and Bring, in this timeless grave to throw are, in perfection of tone, not far short of Shakespeare's Take, O, take those lips away and Fear no more the heat...
...great and the puerile; their range was remarkably narrow and primitive. His natural meter was quite as primitive-chiefly ballad stanzas (with some beautiful original variants on them), and the four-beat couplets which are the basic pulse of English poetry. But his subtle variety and mastery of tone, developed upon those few simple emotions and within that narrow range of key, are as remarkable as anything short of Mozart's minuets. Only the greatest poets had a better musical ear, a subtler handling of meter...