Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the President revealed more of what has been decided. Old (78) Arthur Capper, Senator from Kansas since 1918, is famed as the original Congressman who could keep both ears on the ground at once. Always a litmus-paper test of public opinion, Senator Capper now said, in a tone of irritation rare with him: "Let us have some more information −truth if you want to call it that about what was agreed on at Moscow and Teheran...
...Amarillo reporter, checking through 50 papers from North Texas, noted an increasingly anti-Administration tone...
Triple Entente. Most significantly, the next major feature of the report is that it repeatedly suggests that its recommendations take effect through the law-i.e., that Congress should define and regulate the functions and powers of the reconversion agencies. The whole tone of the report is such as to encourage Congress in opposing the usual Administration practice of asking blank-check powers and appropriations for vaguely denned agencies. The economic destiny of the U.S. is envisioned as being not in the hands of the President (who released the report with a perfunctory nod), but in a Triple Entente: President...
Peace years have always meant student life at its very richest exuberance to Hollis. From the close of the Revolution, through five major wars, the tone of life has little changed. The misarranged flues, scattering smoke through rooms, lavatory and halls, the mice, the gradual sagging of the wooden floors that always meant that the atmosphere that was Harvard's was very much Hollis'. And the affinity of local characters to this old structure only added to the legend...
...seemed to be gaining confidence. Soon he was talking about the conduct of the war, praising the Army & Navy. There was an interruption: "Don't you give President Roosevelt ANY of the credit?" The challenging tone lifted the Governor's eyebrows, but he quickly got them down and managed a quiet "Certainly...