Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from his first wife, who got custody of their two children, and is remarried to a computer specialist named Alison who has borne him two more youngsters. His answer to what he does next is a simple "I don't know. This is what I do best." His tone implies that he is fully prepared to leave the Pentagon again rather than shut up about his convictions...
...headline and the tone of your editorial on Chicago's recent election (3/1)prejudge the new Democratic nominee for mayor and accuse him of using "A new populist" machine...
First seed David Boyum played Yale Captain Victor Wagner, who won the 1982 intercollegiate championship after downing Boyum to get to the finals. This tone, Wagner didn't have a chance. He spent the first game watching Boyum make some of his most etlective shots as Boyum make some of his most iterative shots as Boyum cruised to a 15-6 triumph. The second game wasn't much different a 15-9 decision for the Harvard leader. So in the third game. Boyum decided another lesson was in order...
Most of the poems in the section entitled "So you see it takes a lot of work," are light, simple and clear. The tone belies the disturbing fact that most of these children are no more than 12 years old, yet have worked long enough to consider it the main activity of their lives, a solid part of their memories, rather than games and play time which predominate the memories of most American children...
...television series, M*A*S*H had been a mildly successful novel (1968) by Richard Hooker and a surprise hit movie (1970) directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr. Most of the TV show's major characters were sketched in by the movie, but the tone was '50s frat house, and the emphasis was on the safety-valve sexual high jinks that the heroes perpetrated on some of their uptight colleagues. These droll humiliations would have been too raunchy for TV and too alienating for audiences in search of a weekly identification figure. Enter Alan...