Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this month that rapidly turned acrimonious, he accused Thompson of presiding over the worst economic decline in the U.S., citing the state's 12.2% unemployment rate and soaring debt. Stevenson, who later accused the Governor of "subterfuge and deception" to conceal his failures, tried to justify the snappish tone: "I'm portrayed as bland and dull. As a tactical matter, I thought I ought to take him apart...
...interview almost over. Naso returns to his confident tone. "We could have been a 500 team last year," he says, citing last-minute losses to Princeton, Brown and Cornell. "I think we've finally earned some respect from our opponents...
Knowledge of what was actually going on in Washington was a rare commodity. For some, it provided the confidence that conflict would be avoided; for others, inside information only added to their apprehension. Undergraduates lacked any such special insights, and emotions in the dorms fluctuated with the tone of each day's news reports. "We were up and down," says Frederic L Ballard Jr. '63, who was president of the Crimson. "We would hear a report about the confrontation of ships and just have to wait to hear if that was going...
...unusual as the amount of ink spilled over the boycott is the tone of most of this editorial commentary. Below are selected excerpts that convey both the style and substance of reaction to the boycott...
...civilian reader simply does not know whether to believe this legend making, retailed by the author in a tone of righteous contempt. Resentment underlies many of the arguments advanced here, and not all of it is directed against the Soviets. The author frets that "the resolve and the military capability of the West had since 1918 been sapped by an uncritical hankering for peace." Among the hankerers, they comment snidely, were what Lenin called "useful fools," and these fainthearts were quick to join "socalled 'peace movements,' unobtrusively orchestrated and largely paid for by the U.S.S.R...