Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the argument about God's giving comfort (No. 5 in the Gallup poll) appears at all suggests religion gone soft...
Pisces. No theatre yet, but President Pusey will announce a special bequest for an undergraduate herbarium on De Wolfe Street near Dunster House "in line with our policy of emphasizing the College." In the entertainment world, a soft-drink company will attempt to inveigle Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar to reunite for a 4,000,000 dollar bonus, on the condition that Caesar drastically change his last name...
...greater skill and force than any U.S. diplomat had ever shown in dealing with the Communists. With one sharp stroke after another, he stripped the Communists naked of the pretense that they really wanted peace at anything less than their own outrageous price. If millions remained deluded by the "soft" Malenkov line, that was not the fault of Dulles, who rescued other millions from gullibility...
...Dulles, who had been accused of saber rattling with such phrases as "massive retaliation," found himself the target of other critics who accused him of speaking too softly about coexistence, particularly after the Chinese branded 13 imprisoned Americans as spies. Dulles' restraint in this case was deliberate, and resulted from his highly practical analysis of why the Reds made their announcement on the 13 prisoners. He was convinced that the Soviet and Chinese Communists were attempting to give the U.S. a diplomatic one-two punch: soft talk from Moscow and hard action from Peking...
...pronouns as "dese" and "dem." Hanging up the phone, he picked up a plump tangerine from his desk and tossed it to a political lieutenant, who peeled it and offered half to De Sapio. When he spoke to his visitors, De Sapio's voice changed. His tone was soft, his diction near-faultless. He told of his appointment as secretary of state, and it was clear he thought it no more than his due in the world of political give and take...