Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time when Jimmy Carter's pious pronoucements about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to American foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that Pinochet's junta murdered five years ago with U.S. government encouragement and support, the thousands of Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...
...youth" has swung to the right to begin a guerilla war against the blacks who, having attained the nervous prosperity of the middle class, have taken over the military and the FBI. It's all in good fun, really--although Halberstam's vision of America has an underlying serious tone, his tongue seems at times to be straining through his cheek--but for anyone who ever chafed against the outrageous plotlines ox countless mid-60's America-is-dying political novels, the resemblance can be unsettling...
That's the endless gas battle "I never thought," said Senator Russell Long, in an appropriate tone of disbelief, "the conferees could take a House bill favored by the consumers, and a Senate bill favored by the producers, and work out a fiasco opposed by both. But they have clearly succeeded in doing...
Though Wurf has not hesitated to lead illegal strikes to win union recognition, he is now striving to set a statesmanlike tone. He proclaims himself "anxiously ready" to negotiate ways to improve the productivity of government employees, even if that includes reducing their numbers by attrition. He is actively pushing laws to give most government workers a choice of submitting disputes to arbitration, rather than striking, and to make arbitration compulsory for cops, firemen and other public-safety workers. Instead of simply decrying the tax revolt, as Meany does, Wurf calls for reforms: cuts in property taxes...
...comparable tone of Harvard Yard sneering surfaces whenever Schlesinger seems to feel that Kennedy was threatened. The effect is often tasteless. Staging a counterattack on one of Bobby's anti-Viet Nam War speeches, the Johnson White House "exhumed," as Schlesinger has it, James A. Farley, a distinguished elder of the Democratic Party. Throughout, R.F.K.'s opponents are made to look asinine or worse. Hubert Humphrey "chirruped." On the hustings in 1968, Kennedy is consistently praised for his ability to rouse mass audiences to a pitch of righteous frenzy; Lyndon Johnson, meanwhile, "pounded the podium and shouted about...