Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring of 1968, college students at more than 100 campuses had taken part in demonstrations, according to Newsweek. Though the National Students Association estimated that only about three percent of the nation's undergraduates had actually protested, it was those activists who set the tone on campuses...
With the sudden assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy '48 and Martin Luther King Jr., that tone grew more frustrated and more insistent, erupting at Columbia and later at the 1968 Democratic National Convention...
...jacks and hide- and-seek, and later sneaked Viceroys with Nan behind the drugstore instead of going to Mass. She was the one with the sense of humor, memorizing the candy-on-a-speeded-up-conveyor-belt episode from I Love Lucy; the one who was tone-deaf but couldn't care less, belting out Cross Over the Bridge, the Patti Page rouser, at top volume...
Student leaders, who did not attend the meeting, were unaware that Cheng and Hwang were writing the letter, and expressed displeasure yesterday at its content and tone...
Clinton should encourage the Hollywood stars who cluster around him seeking to make a difference to use their influence with movie executives to tone down the excessive and graphic violence in their films...