Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls from Vassar the transition involved other adjustments. The big name lecturer was decidedly new, and it took some time for one girl to get over the shock of Cleanth Brooks asking her in a soft southern drawl, "Are you happy at Yale...
...fact that a few students want only four soft years and a degree may be a good argument against the reinstitution of non-Honors tutorial on a compulsory basis. But some provision must be made for the other non-Honors students...
Dwight Eisenhower's most poignantly sad moment of the week came not as he listened to the returns on election night, but as he stood bareheaded on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery and heard the melancholy strains of taps pierce the soft autumn...
...with the kind of artistry, witchery and passion that only she can convey. The Dallas Traviata used an intriguing gimmick by presenting the story as a long flashback, starting with Violetta on her deathbed visualizing the episodes leading up to her final illness. From the first curtain, when a soft light bloomed on the reclining Violetta, to the resignation of Dite alia giovine and the yearning of Parigi, O cara, Callas held her audience in a kind of hushed trance. Her tones were rock firm, aglow with a dozen nuances of passion, from hectic gaiety to quiet sadness. Callas scored...
...gambling facilities in St. Mark's Square. Once he aimed a shaft of wit at the scantily clad tourists who swarm the city in the summertime: "People need not come to Italy in furs or woollens. They can come dressed in that modern American silk, fresh and soft, which is a veritable refrigerator at low cost. Italy, on the other hand, is not on the equator, and even there, by the way, lions wear their coats, and crocodiles are lined with their most precious hides...