Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenge of the uprising in little Lebanon, the first Middle East nation that accepted the Eisenhower Doctrine without reservation, brought firm but soft-spoken promises of U.S. support. The U.S. airlifted tear gas, guns and ammunition so that the Lebanese government could control insurrection, speeded up a shipment of tanks, sent 18 C124 transports from Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina to West Germany to be within easy range of Lebanon. It also sent two Sixth Fleet amphibious units eastward in the Mediterranean with 3,600 Marines, ready if needed to back up U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock...
...seen both his stubbornness and his pride vindicated." At the Paris conference, recalled London's conservative Daily Telegraph, "Mr. Dulles stood out from his other ministerial colleagues like a gnarled tree stump, incongruously recalling the hard winds of winter among a bed of spring flowers all heralding the soft days of sunshine ahead. But the sun failed to shine. When the ministers met this week in Copenhagen, therefore, it was the gnarled tree stump that seemed congruous and seasonal, with the spring flowers looking and sounding sadly out of place...
Capitalizing on these archaic dreams, the French right has shown itself increasingly contemptuous of democratic procedures. To live in France today is to enjoy the riches of her museums and the misty shapes of Paris under the soft archery of summer showers, to feel the quick, cool darkness under the blossom-laden chestnut trees, and to smell the grass falling to the mower on lawns snow-powdered with tiny daisies called pâaquerettes...
...Cola Chairman Alfred Nu Steele is his gymnasium-sized Manhattan apartment, 13 stories above Fifth Avenue at 70th Street. Easily awed Broadway columnists have dubbed it "Taj Joan." But it's quite a place; Joan insists that visitors remove their shoes before entering lest they soil the quicksand-soft golden carpets...
...Soft Suds. In Palm Springs, Calif., when bus passage was denied John Henry Miller because he had had too much to drink, he complained to police: "I can't be drunk; I've only had 30 beers...