Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a temporary truce between the University and the graphics workers. But the tone of the ratification discussions indicates the University and the union will continue to eye each other warily...
Everyone said it was scheduling problems. Federal mediator Jerry Gomez was working on arranging talks for last week, and then he was hoping for this week. Yesterday he said there was a good chance for a meeting sometime next week. That's been the tone of the talks: postponement...
...their disagreement concerns the substance as well as the tone of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union, particularly with regard to two specific issues...
...same time, the exhaustive hunt for Moro and his captors continued. Police threw everything into the search, including dogs and helicopters. Military and police roadblocks created long but patient queues on the autostrade. Not so patient was the tone of a message sent to Rome's daily Il Messaggero. Italian underworld bosses, supposedly annoyed that the intensive police presence was hurting business, issued an "ultimatum" demanding Moro's release by 4 p.m. last Thursday -or else the boys from the mob would see to it that their colleagues behind bars would bump off Red Brigades members who were...
Truth was in line, not in color or tone. Some of Blake's most acrid denunciations were reserved for Rembrandt and Rubens, in whose "dark caverns" and "hellish brownness" the true lessons of Raphael and Michelangelo were, in his opinion, lost. His own images were overwhelmingly linear, his style based on outline and infill. The line recalls its 16th century sources in mannerist engravings (Blake never crossed the channel, and so had to depend on prints for his contact with Michelangelo). His famous Glad Day, showing Albion, the spirit of resurgent England, in mid-dance with his arms flung...