Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft talk brought some hard thoughts to many a worried U.S. head. Senate Majority Leader William Knowland feared that the U.S. might be admitting a Communist "Trojan horse." General Mark Clark, former commander of United Nations forces in Korea, warned that a "tough" approach to Communism is the best way to prevent another...
...British Prime Minister's idea of co-existence, the one generally accepted by Eisenhower, is no soft-headed approach to the communist threat. He maintains that there is a "new hope of peaceful co-existence with the Russian nation and that is our duty, patiently and daringly, to make sure whether there is such a change or not." Advocating that the free world look for areas of agreement, however, does not include the relaxation of military strength. The Nine Power Treaty is applauded by Churchill as "a monument and milestone" in the program for co-existence. His basic attitude...
...soul is Frodo Baggins of Bag End, who has been bequeathed the ring by a rich old cousin. Frodo is a hobbit. Hobbits are under three feet tall, eat six meals a day, like to give parties, and both the rich and the poor live in holes. Hobbits are "soft as butter . . . and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots." In the end, of course, hobbits turn out to be more like people than people. Frodo is a happy hobbit who whiles away his "tweens"-the "irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three." Only...
...factor boosting Wilson in the coaching field is his interest in the players and in their problems. Quiet and soft-spoken, he nonetheless gets to know his charges well and can often tell what personal problems may be harming the quality of an individual's play. One varsity player summed it up when he said, "Floyd is aware of many more things than coaches usually...
...Casey proudly calls himself a Communist and has a soft spot in his head for the Soviet Union ("The inexhaustible energy, the irresistible enthusiasm of their Socialistic efforts, were facts to Sean; grand facts"). But this does not make his autobiography any less entertaining. O'Casey admits the existence of other literary lights only to short-circuit them, and he is at his best when he is blowing fuses. Samples...