Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harbor fire, making up the annual deficit of the Seal Harbor library, encouraging the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society to keep a neat village green and to provide plenty of parking space. Constantly he is on the phone to friends and associates, asking questions about projects in his soft voice: "What's the total cost? How much are the others paying? How much can the others raise without...
...take off his coat, grab another pitchfork and start to work." This week, pitchfork in hand, Vice-Presidential Nominee Kefauver was all set to start work on the key part of his Democratic campaign job: winning votes for his ticket in the twelve-state Midwestern farm area with a soft pitch of faith, hope and parity...
...proposal for an early end to the draft? "I realize that it is always tempting to tell the voters there is an easy way to meet difficult problems . . . But this is no time to suggest to our friends or our possible opponents abroad that America is getting soft and tired, and is looking for an easy way out of our world responsibilities. In this critical moment of history, let us have the good sense and courage to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to carry out America's international responsibilities...
...reportedly refusing to talk about any Nasser counterproposals. Afterwards Nasser entertained the committee at a banquet in the lush tropical gardens of one of the ex-royal family's palaces. To the dismay of burly Bob Menzies, Australia's leading wine connoisseur, Moslem Nasser served only soft drinks with the dinner. (Soon he was not to care; like so many visitors to Egypt, Menzies came down with a case of "gyppy tummy...
...when rotund Camille Pissarro walked into Paris' Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes with his great prophet's beard streaming and his portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists would greet him with a shout, "Hail to Moses!" In fact, good-natured, soft-spoken Painter Pissarro's place in art was far more that of teacher, peacemaker and counselor than lawgiver. He was ten years older than most of the impressionist greats, and this induced in him a fatherly urge to take time off from his own painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together...