Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had been dissension among his advisers. Some wanted it to be stronger in tone. Others, worried about political repercussions, urged that it be toned down. Harry Truman listened to all, took the middle course...
...Archibald Clark Kerr hurried to Bucharest to put into effect the new deal in the Balkans. These three, of all the millions who cared, would be the first to discover whether the Moscow conference had been a genuine advance over London, or just a meeting with a friendlier "tone...
Neither the U.S. negotiators nor the American people thought of the British loan as a bargaining victory; but when Congress takes up the British loan there would surely be remarks that matched in bitterness the tone of the House of Commons debate. Nevertheless, though an anti-British bloc on Capitol Hill was sharpening its axes last week, the loan's prospects of congressional approval looked good...
Perhaps the production's chief flaw was the lack of training in the soloists. Although Soprano Irma Cooper had a beautiful tone, she lost control when singing either loudly or high. Less noticeable in Eilen Repp, contralto, and Harold Haugh, tenor, the lack of control again appeared in Bass John Metcalf. His usual clarity deserted him almost completely during the intricate chromatics of the aria, "Why do the nations so furiously rage together...
Karl Shapiro's 2,072-line Essay on Rime was written in the Pacific, without access to books. Modest in tone but ambitious in purpose, it is the effort of a talented poet to keep writing in the midst of a war. But it is a disturbing indication of what poetry (and its readers) have come to, that the publication of this work was widely regarded as an important event. The poem contains many unexceptionable and not too generally recognized ideas and statements ("dialectic is the foe of poetry"). But it contains little that is not self-evident...