Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record the Academy-trained officers did a fine job, training the reserves at first, commanding most of the combat ships, setting a standard of professional excellence, and giving the tone to the Navy that most of the good reserve officers saw fit to comply with. They more than justified their and their school's existence, for they set the character of the fleet...
Yamamoto (in a very definite tone): Yes, the birth of the child seems imminent. It seems as if it will be a strong, healthy boy. . . . Did you make any statement to the newspapers regarding your talk with Miss Kimiko today...
Policy of Drift. Clement Attlee had arrived at a time when U.S. foreign policy was in a state of flux. The firm tone of President Truman's Navy Day speech was not followed by firm action. Fortnight ago, Pundit Walter Lippmann had complained: "It is quite clear . . . that our foreign relations are not under control, that decisions of the greatest moment are being made in bits and pieces without the exercise of any sufficient overall judgment ... by the President and his chief advisers...
...diplomatic tone of the conference was set. Each night John Lewis strode off from the Labor Department Building in magnificent isolation. A.F. of L. delegates went to confer in their Washington headquarters, C.I.O. delegates to tear their hair in theirs. Management's men, content to sit by while labor bickered, met in hotel suites or the Chamber of Commerce Building, waited to see what labor would do to untangle itself...
...important part of Mary's rehabilitation program was to hush up and tone down this history, while shifting the blame for the episode from Shelley to Harriet. In this ambitious task she found an ambiguous and wholly unexpected ally-a U.S. blackmailer known to the authorities as De Gibler. Among the intelligentsia he was known as "Major" George Gordon Byron. He claimed to be Lord Byron's son by a secret marriage...