Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deft-fingered skill. A TV camera relays a color image to viewing rooms throughout the hospital. A two-way phone system enables the surgeon to explain what he is doing, while graduate students can ask him to clear up details. And in the operating rooms doctors and nurses wear soft green-easier on the eyes and on the TV lens than white...
...looks ahead at some floating sargasso weed, where some flying fishes are skittering through the air. "Could be fish there," he says. A reel gives out a soft whine, and Hemingway goes into action again. "Beautiful!" he cries. "Dolphin. They're beautiful." After landing his fish, shimmering blue, gold and green, Hemingway turns his attention to his guest. "Take him softly now," he croons. "Easy. Easy. Work him with style. That's it, up slowly with the rod, now reel in fast. Suave. With style. With style. Don't break his mouth." After the second fish...
...Yesterday was typical at Hemenway. Barnaby and three of the top players in the area were working on the team. Barnaby himself worked with Batts Wheeler, number eleven last year, number five now. For an hour he went over corner shots, feeding him the ball time and time again, soft, fast, high, low, patiently building a put away shot...
...welcome relaxation of tension, but "there has so far been no modification whatever of Soviet policy." U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, joining Mendes-France in rejecting the Russian attempt to delay ratification of Western agreements on rearming Germany, said he had discovered no gentle conduct beneath the soft words. In his best Engine Charlie style, U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson had a down-to-earth formula: "coexistence," but not "cohabitation...
When the Korean war came, he had a soft touch in the finance service, but he wanted combat duty. He was sent to an infantry refresher course, and then as a corporal to Korea. After 123 combat patrols, he came home a master sergeant, took an officer candidate course, ranked seventh among the 54 who last August got commissions in his group...