Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having in Indiana." That relationship never became completely clear, but Nixon's approach and tone were in keeping with his strategy as a presidential candidate...
...week, after maneuvering the General Assembly into agreeing to a debate restricted to the Khrushchev proposals, Russia's First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov announced that if the general disarmament plan were accepted "in principle," the task of working out controls "would not be difficult." Kuznetsov's tone was unwontedly courteous, but nothing he said represented any real concession to Western insistence that workable disarmament must be preceded by agreement on a rigid inspection and control system...
...lofty tone and the customary appeal to moderation were both still there, but beneath the bland surface last week the voice of India seemed almost stern...
Sharply satirical one moment about political figures or popular songs, Flanders and Swann are gaily whimsical the next about animals (their specialty) or plants in love. Their tone is sophisticated; they never spell words out, and use many that are foreign. Their joking is educated, with here a lurking bit of Wordsworth, there a pun on Kyd. They can be most lively when most deadpan, and most deadly when most daft. But their triumph rests on their total effect. Delightful as their songs can be (one is about an Oxford-bred cannibal who no longer likes eating people), the evening...
While the belly laughs are few, the chuckles are frequent in The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, and as its redoubtable hero might put it, "by Keplen. high-tone crititzizink is a vaste time. Tsplit infinitifs, I got; wrong tanses, like-vise; dobble nagetifs, also. Hau Kay? Enjoy...