Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close friends gathered round when the awful impact of Edwin Thomas' $15,000 loan to Ursula Meese began to sink in. "I blew it," Ed Meese kept repeating in a low tone. "I completely forgot about it." At one point, when her husband left the room to make a phone call, Ursula broke down and wept. Never before had the friends seen Ursula Meese cry. "I've done this to him," she sobbed, "and he doesn't deserve...
...with a whole string. The popular words and phrases were variations on that old stand-by of political reporting, the expectations game-this candidate did better or worse "than expected," that candidate "had to" win here or capture some specified percentage of the vote there-and they set the tone for the evaluation of the evening's results. In a nomination battle, especially during the early stages, the interpretation of who won is often more important than the numbing columns of delegate totals. Perception becomes reality, and that reality is formed for the most part by reporters, on television...
...rapid-fire synopsis of the siege and fall of Troy is, inexplicably, almost as wooden as the horse. Her enthusiastic expedition into papal territory (where she solemnly scolds, but obviously admires, the ferocious warrior-Pope Julius II) stops dead for impenetrable paragraphs dealing with Renaissance politics. The sharply polemical tone in the Viet Nam section undermines the intended message...
...renowned number theorist and seemingly tireless worker, Lang has devoted a good part of his academic career to waging wars of information on political issues which affect universities. He operates by assembling vast correspondence networks among educators, through which document's, commentaries and invectives--all with an unmistakably sardonic tone--come into the hands of decision-makers and scholars...
...many a sun worshiper, Actress-Model Ann Turkel, 32, used to spend hours working on a seamless, all-over tan, but got tired of "always hanging out naked in my backyard." So she and her boyfriend, Austrian Designer Hans Buhringer, set out to find a solution to this two-tone torment. The result, appropriately, is called "the unsuit," available for men and women at $35 to $40 and made with a special cotton material that allows some, but not all, of the sun to shine through...