Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know," he said, as he leaned back in the soft chair, and glanced at the piles of melting snow outside the window, "I've always agreed with something that I think Professor Fairbank said in one of his books, and that was, 'You can't have someone else's disillusions for him.' A democratic government has to be based on that belief...
...federal courts; six years have passed since he last called his United Mine Workers out on a major strike. But last week, old John L. showed that his roar can still jolt the coal industry. The mere threat of a U.M.W. strike was enough to make unionized soft-coal operators accept costly new contract terms, topped by a $2-a-day wage boost, which will bring the union miner's standard pay to $24.25 a day. John L. has generally accepted labor-saving machinery and consequent boosts in productivity, but these have not been enough, soft-coal companies implied...
...oboe's warmly singing tone a fine quality of darkling brilliance, free of the reediness that afflicts many less gifted players. Both, when the occasion requires, can coax from the oboe inflections that, in the words of one 18th century oboe enthusiast, "go as easie and as soft as the Flute...
...commercial (TIME, Aug. 4).) But Freberg also had a solid Baptist upbringing (his minister father still has a church in Pasadena), and for years he has felt Christmas commercialism gnawing away at his religious vitals. "The funny thing is," he says, "that businessmen would sell as much soap or soft drinks at Christmas if they never mentioned the season...
...Birth of Doubt. Author Kazantzakis begins just about where Homer left off. Odysseus has come home, slain Penelope's suitors and re-established his authority. Now Penelope, whom he has not seen for 19 years, bores him. His gentle son Telemachus seems soft and dull and disapproves of his cunning, brutal father who lives as if life were a permanent state of war. With five devoted and adventurous companions, Odysseus builds a new boat and leaves his island home to begin a second odyssey, which is to end in a spiritual trial by fire and death...