Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hyndman, soft from long hours back of a desk, tramped the fairways with badly blistered feet. He was playing his same steady game, but it was not enough. To make matters worse, Ward was getting the breaks. On the sixth, he overshot the green, saw his ball bounce off a movie sound truck and fall safe. After an "approximate" 66 on the first round (he did not actually hole out at several greens), he breezed into the home stretch. Hyndman hung on, won his only hole of the day (with a 75-ft. putt), then halved five...
...combined team of 22 American civilians and SAC airmen who thought they knew something about judo, Japan's "soft art," took a painful trouncing from some Hokkaido University students at Sapporo, Japan. George F. Geisenhoff, 200-lb. SAC strongman, was tossed out of the ring and broke his collarbone; Kenji Honda, 130-Ib. American of Japanese ancestry, was all but smothered by his opponent and wound up with several broken ribs...
...subject not the curved elegance of cherubim and seraphim that had made him famous, but stern Old Testament prophets. In them he found a wrath. compassion and inspiration that matched his own. He sculpted their squat figures in bizarre oriental costumes, twisted and tormented in soapstone (which is soft when quarried, grows hard with age). Before the last one was finished, in 1805, Aleijadinho was working with mallet and chisel strapped to the stumps of his crippled hands. He lived on miserably until 1814. When he died, his achievement marked the high point in exuberant Brazilian rococo...
COCA-COLA will bubble its way into yet another foreign market: Japan. In order to get past the opposition of Japanese soft-drink makers, Coca-Cola agreed to turn over to Japanese businessmen its bottling plants built to supply American troops, limit distribution of Cokes to big-city bars and other spots frequented by foreigners...
Finally, Fuller lies in state in a TV studio ("The corpse is wearing a blue serge suit. That was a Command Decision") and a young TV hopeful named Ed Harris is assigned to write a memorial show. As Scriptwriter Harris keeps digging into the soft, rich dirt of Fuller's life, the reader will never find out more than that a heel is a heel is a heel, but he will get a behind-the-camera TV education. He will learn how to tell an executive's importance from the kind of humor with which the doorman greets...