Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey's plain-spoken acceptance speech, an extraordinarily clear and promising beginning to a U.S. political campaign and, notable for its tone of sensible restraint, gave the first indication of what kind of campaign he might be expected to make...
...Germany (where the robot was christened "V-I," for Vergeltungswaffe or "Reprisal Weapon" No. I), Herr Goebbels got cold feet about his first delirious claims of demoralization and destruction in Britain, and ordered his radio stooges to tone down...
Doctors who have tried the method find that the mothers' muscle tone remains good, so that delivery is spontaneous, babies are not dopey, labor is shortened. One objection: the injection is 8 to 12 cm. (3⅛ in. to 4¾ in.) deep and some skeptics insist that not every doctor can learn to make...
Root turned the ship over to Anderson and sat beside me. He spoke in a quiet, cool tone. "Guess old 293 isn't a virgin any more," he said...
...Industrial Medicine, Researchers Foulger and Smith explained how the heart, without being diseased itself, quickly reflects changes in circulation caused by poisons, poor nutrition, anemia, fatigue, etc. Any one of these factors can start a vicious circle by lowering muscle tone throughout the body, thus impairing the return of blood to the heart. With less blood to pump, the muscles of the left side of the heart lose some of their oomph and sour notes result. The poor heart action adds to that tired feeling, contributes to the slow return of blood...