Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover's soft-voiced pleas to purge the pension rolls fell on deaf ears at the Capitol. Special Congressional committees investigated only to report disagreement and deadlock. The National Economy League took the field in response to widespread sentiment against nonmilitary disability allowances. But the thumbscrew tactics of the veterans' lobbies blocked all legislative action...
...this week-has a steady, well-integrated machine built around Bob O'Connell. captain and centre, rather than Earl ("Chubby") Nikkei, its leading scorer. Nikkei-more stockily built than the picture of a star basketballer-is not so fast as O'Connell but he has a disconcerting soft throw that on his best night this season piled up 22 points against Penn. Yale's coach, Elmer Ripley, was a crack professional on the Celtics before 1929. Since he went to New Haven-possibly also because famed Albie Booth was on his 1931 team-bas-ketball has grown...
...Traveling to Newport News, Mrs. Hoover cracked a bottle of grapejuice over the prow of the Navy's newest aircraft carrier (13,500 tons with superstructure to starboard of landing table). Declared she: "I christen thee Ranger." Said she later: "I shall always have a soft spot in my heart for the Navy because its blue-jackets once saved the life of my husband and myself from Oriental bullets and knives...
Leon, gentle young artist, divided his allegiance between the Communist Party and his best friend Jason, ex-poet, drunken, disillusioned hack-writer of sex stories. Celia, niece of Leon's landlady, cast soft but unavailing eyes at him. Leon was heart-whole till, one night at a Party meeting, he met the luscious Helen. Helen thought him cute, and encouraged him, but not seriously: she was living with a Mexican. Leon, blissfully ignorant, worshiped her from afar. In Jason's tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages...
...which is to be played on Saturday afternoon in the Linden Street Courts, "the more I am convinced of the advisability of the hard, side wall game. Perhaps the first difficulty I meet in training good players into this style is one of making them understand that an occasional soft shot played along the wall is more vulnerable than the average match-play corner shot. In other words, the corner shot that is not perfectly executed is a set-up for the other player, whereas the ball hit from the rear of the court is comparatively hard to put away...