Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furious Democratic spokesmen have charged that Nixon smeared Democrats by charging that they were soft on Communism The record shows that Nixon hit hard and often on the issue, but that he never adopted Joe McCarthy's unjust line that the Democratic Party is the party of treason. Pointing out that he was not charging the party with disloyalty, Nixon made the very different charge that the Democratic Administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman had too often failed to understand and to meet the threat of Communist subversion...
...flowers were permitted in the President's room, bouquets from well-wishers continued to pour into the corridor just outside (after being carefully inspected by the Secret Service). The previous day, the President had remarked to his wife and son that it would be pleasant to hear some "soft music." So with a nod from the doctors, Colonel Robert Schulz, the President's military aide, brought a tape-recording machine into Ike's hospital room. For an hour Ike listened dreamily to three albums: Moods in Music, Quiet Music, and Music for Daydreaming...
Hagerty (continuing the bulletin): He enjoyed a breakfast of prunes, oatmeal, soft-boiled egg (singular), toast and milk...
...often the best meal of many patients who have not eaten through the night, and he hadn't eaten much during the past 24 to 36 hours anyway . . . Some people might say, "Why did he have such a very big-sized breakfast?" It was not very big-pretty soft, easily digested. Why did he have eggs, since eggs now are being deprecated against? We have to supply some fat to the body...
...theory of strength through unity with the West was a failure. More significantly, some of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats were beginning to talk of developing "a more German" policy. But unity with the West remained the dominant view. There was some worry that the West might be soft-talked by the Russians into tabling German reunification and moving on to discussion of an East-West European security arrangement. This, Adenauer men pointed out, might lead to a situation where the "two Germanys" would feel forced to take-up reunification themselves, with Russian help...