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Word: soft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perry Como is so relaxed that he sometimes gives the impression of being made of sponge rubber with a core of Seconal. His eye is soft, his movements languid, his voice soothing. He views the world as being peopled exclusively by "nice guys." Once he applied that label to a famed middleweight boxer he had met. A friend pointed out that the pug had recently gone to jail for kicking his pregnant wife in the abdomen. Perry looked momentarily unhappy, then suggested: "Maybe it was a case of mistaken identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A World of Nice Guys | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Besides these hard-shelled projects. Holloman also works with all-too-soft human flesh. The famed Space Surgeon John Paul Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12) speeds across the desert on his rocket sled to see how much strain the human body can stand. Another Holloman specialty is radio-controlled drone aircraft, which are used as targets and as a means of improving missile guidance systems. Perhaps the most picturesque program is "space biology," which includes sending living organisms (bacteria to monkeys) up to the edge of space in rockets. The condition in which they return to earth gives some idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: PIONEERS IN SPACE-AIR FORCE SCIENTISTS FACE THE UNKNOWN | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...displeasure by ramming her car into his. They were separated. Anna loves her son Luca now 13 and stricken with polio, with a fierce protective passion that motivates much of her acting. She is grimly determined to leave him rich when she dies, and she probably will: under the soft schedule of Italian taxes, her take-home pay over the last ten years has been tremendous For several years in the '40s Anna kept company with Director Roberto Rosselmi, and the incidental breakage was impressive. Crockery flew and so did curses frequently in public. Once, when Roberto displeased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World's Greatest Actress | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...hand) named him Yawgawts, which means Cry-Baby (Lee himself preferred to render it "Man of Tender Passions"), and his foster-father once exhorted him, saying: "I want you to be a Man & not -a Baby." Was there in Lee's devotion something soft, visible only to canny captains and savages? There seems to have been-and tragedy was destined to be born from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Splendid Saga | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Heckscher was slightly off his game, but his crushing smash service and soft corner shots were too much for Tony LaFleur. Heckscher actually hit his opponent several times with his bullet-like serve and often caught him flat-footed with his deft corners, winning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squash Tops McGill For Third Straight Win, 9-0 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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