Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern draftee as soft as a grape? And is the peacetime army too polite ever to tread on him? For some strange reason, Author Hargrove seems to feel that he needs this thesis to write a fictional sequel to his famed funnybook of World War II, See Here, Private Hargrove. Fortunately, it scarcely clutters up the plot, and Author Hargrove is soon back on the grin-and-gripe days of basic. While the rover-boys-in-training-camp is not exactly fresh comedy material. The Girl He Left Behind is still good and sufficient grounds for an evening...
...need for it was underlined by the soft spots in the nation's business, and the blame for them fell on the Federal Reserve Board's tight-money policy. In Washington, Joseph B. Haverstick, president of the National Association of Home Builders, noted that the mortgage squeeze had caused a 20% drop in April housing starts. "The trend is still sharply downward," he said. "Unless there is some immediate improvement in the financing picture, the outlook for the remainder of the year is not hopeful...
Employer's Chance. In Albany, N.Y., an ad appeared in the Times-Union: "MISFIT wants lucrative, soft position; lazy, ignorant, irresponsible, no experience, no ability, no references...
...Mediterranean, is Vice Admiral Harry D. Felt's Sixth Fleet-soon to include the bristling guided-missile cruiser Canberra*-offering defense-in-depth to NATO's long, thin southern flank and imposing its stable strength on Middle Eastern foment. There, riding at anchor in the soft swell of Okinawa's Buckner Bay, is Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll's Seventh Fleet, ready to turn its carrier-keyed task force toward the first break in Asia's ominous calm (a calm that might well not exist were it not for the Seventh Fleet's presence). There...
...given to statements like "I rejoice in the fact that in all my life I have never debased my art." He starves, paints, and falls for a firm-breasted circus girl. For several chapters Stephen hangs about her "like a wasp around a nectarine, but without once penetrating the soft flesh of the fruit." She jilts him, but "through his hurt and humiliation, he still wanted her, through his hatred he still had need...