Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise money for a retired nurses' fund, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan opened up his Sussex home to the public for one day, gathered more than $500 for the charity from some 2,000 who paid admissions, sipped soft drinks, gawked at the handsome gardens. In his best country-gentleman manner, the Prime Minister posed on the steps of Birch Grove House with wife Lady Dorothy and six blooming grandchildren: Anne Faber, 13, Alexander Macmillan, 14, Adam Macmillan, 10, Mark Faber, 7, Michael Faber, 12, and Joshua Macmillan...
...I.D.A. would be capitalized at $1 billion, with the United States contributing $300 million of this total. The original investment would be used by the sixty nations that now comprise the IBRD to purchase voting stock in the new agency. Later, countries might buy non-voting stock with "soft currency." This practice, Monroney says, will enable the United States to dispose of some of the foreign currencies that will accrue to it from the sale of farm surpluses...
...whaling crew were Soviet Russians and, as far as riotous behavior went, Wellington might as well have been host to a church convention. The Russians did their drinking in coffee and milk bars; they avoided waterfront dives, were polite and soft-spoken in trams and shops. The pursuit of women was out of bounds...
...classic of disorganization. Batista easily quelled it with units of the crack, 7,000-man National Police alone, and the cops went on to a brutal and exemplary mop-up. The effect was to cripple, perhaps for a long time, the general-strike psychology-the emotional willingness of soft-hooded amateurs to go up against the hardhanded professionals...
...three TV cameras in front of me, simulating a newscast, and monitors all over the club so I can be seen on the screen too. I'll close that part of the show with some advance info on the stock market. Then I'll go into a soft shoe with the girls, followed by a hot mambo with one of the girls . . ." The finale: "Onstage, you'll see an exact replica of my New York Mirror prowl car with me in it. I'll go across the stage-very fast. Then 24 beautiful girls -probably...