Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lubricate their cords. Among such polished foursomes, the margin of victory will hang on fine points: how well a group conveys the mood and emotion of a song and how precisely its singers blend their four notes to produce a fifth, wholly new harmonic. That high, ringing fifth tone -- the overtone, or "bird" -- is the grail that every barbershop quartet strives...
...money favors three entries: the Second Edition, a young, laid-back bunch from Louisville that placed second last year; the Chicago Chord of Trade, led by an ex-gold medalist who does his own arranging; and the Chiefs of Staff, another seasoned Chicago outfit, known for its consistency of tone. But no one is counting out the Chordiac Arrest from Northbrook, Ill., or the Inns 'n Outts from Houston. The contest will ride on style and panache and the electricity that each foursome can generate in the hall...
...statement that seems to determine the tone of this article comes from Dean Archie Epps, who estimates the Bach Society's earnings for the 1987-1988 season to be "at least $10,000," and the operating expenses to be "only about $4,000," thus resulting in alleged missing funds of at least...
...thing the debate made abundantly clear is that the negative tone of campaigning is unlikely to let up until the election. In the battle of testy one-liners, Dukakis was the initial and consistent aggressor from the moment he threw down the gauntlet by saying, "If Bush keeps it up, he's going to be the Joe Isuzu of American politics." While Bush immediately countered that one of Dukakis' answers was "as clear as Boston Harbor," he generally avoided such frontal attacks, although he continued his indirect assault on Dukakis over emotionally charged values issues...
...said it would let them go if the U.S. would support the nine-month-old Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories. Though that demand is patently unacceptable -- should terrorists conclude they could change American foreign policy by taking hostages, the kidnapings would only increase -- it differed considerably in tone from earlier threats to kill the captives. Another terrorist group freed Rudolf Cordes, a West German businessman, two weeks ago without exacting "any political price" -- or so the Bonn government insisted. Cordes' kidnapers had originally demanded freedom for the Hammadi brothers, two terrorists being held in Germany. But Abbas Hammadi...