Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admonitions he gave to travelers were ones that Nehru was in no mood to follow himself against aggressive Red China. Speaking about India's relations with Peking, Nehru soft-pedaled all thought of risk, hardship and adventure. It was almost as if he were setting out to prove that the revolt in Tibet-"the treacherous armed rebellion," in Peking's words-was nothing to get excited about...
Friendly Letters. Red China returned harsh insults for Nehru's soft words. The Peking radio continued to scream that the rebellion had been instigated by "Indian expansionists" and "foreign imperialists" and bluntly named Nehru's daughter Indira, 41, and his sister Madame Pandit, 58, as co-conspirators with the Tibetan "reactionaries." Stubbornly, the Reds repeated the big lie that the God-King's statement in India that he had fled Tibet of his own volition and his denouncement of the Reds for treaty breaking were "fabrications" by imperialist intriguers...
Explorer IV went into a 51° orbit on July 26. It carried sophisticated instruments that Van Allen's laboratory had provided to distinguish between "hard" and "soft" radiation, and shielded Geiger counters designed to count radiation intensity at extremely high levels without blacking out. On Aug. 27 the first Argus shot sent man-made electrons zigzagging round the earth. The satellite cut through them back and forth, making about 250 passes before its batteries were exhausted on Sept...
...most successful merchandisers of charm to U.S. women is Slenderella International, whose 150 salons played soft music while vibrating tables shook excess inches off flabby matrons. Last week Slenderella itself underwent a slimming treatment. Patrols of Internal Revenue Service agents, watches carefully synchronized, swooped down on Slenderella salons in 24 cities, slapped on liens for $1,235,445 in unpaid taxes, picked up any cash handy. So swiftly did the action come that Slenderella managers and patrons were taken completely off guard. In New York City two women entered while a revenue agent was scooping up cash from the registers...
Aside from this unfortunate bugbear, the performance was very good, with the soft sections that the chorus does so well coming over especially beautifully. The very fast passage work was a little blurred, and the diction is not as clear as it has been. But the sensationalism, the milking of each piece for the last ounce of "effect" has also gone, and the resulting straight readings are more honest and rewarding. This was particularly evident in Bach's Motet No. 1, also for double chorus, a capella, which preceded the Thompson...