Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours the five women and seven men on the Nebraska jury struggled with their anguishing problem: what to do with soft-cheeked Caril Ann Fugate, 15, who accompanied bowlegged Badman Charles Starkweather, 19, on a ten-murder spree last spring (TIME, Feb. 10). Had Caril Ann, whose own mother, stepfather and half sister were among the victims, been a willing accomplice, as the prosecution maintained, and as Witness Starkweather, brought to the court from his death cell, testified? Or, as the defense claimed, had she been Starkweather's terrified and unwilling hostage...
...keeping up a program of Point Four-type technical assistance, 3) fostering increased overseas investment by U.S. private capital, 4) broadening the flow of "bankable" loans through such international channels as the World Bank. 5) enlarging the U.S.'s Development Loan Fund, which makes loans repayable in soft currencies...
...start on a presidential organization divided into three sections: political, research and financial. "Intelligence papers" will be compiled on the delegates to the 1956 national convention ("On the theory that 75% of those who go to the next convention were there before"). Prospective delegates will be approached with a soft sell. "We won't be knocking anyone else," says a Meyner man. "If they say they like Kennedy, we'll say fine, he's a splendid guy, but if he doesn't make it, we'd like them to consider Meyner as a second choice...
...General Darling's "no-holds-barred" search for terrorists, soft-shoed British troops dropped at night from rooftops onto the balconies of Greek Cypriot homes, marched in through the unlocked doors to search for weapons in refrigerators and under beds. After three days the balcony raids were suspended because of complaints from Greek Cypriot women caught in various stages of undress by the unannounced visitors...
...like old times in the famed wooden geisha houses along the river Sumida. A geisha party before the war meant soft lights from many-colored lanterns, the tinkle of the samisen, a mossy garden with elegant dollhouse trees, a banquet starting with pickled sea-urchin eggs, dried seaweed, bonito entrails, mushrooms, and cuttlefish served with maple leaves and chrysanthemums. Above all, it meant the geisha girls themselves, in lacquered wigs and colorful kimonos, who poured sake from porcelain vases, performed their slow and discreet dances, and sang their sad, seductive love invitations...