Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only because for weeks his picture had been gazing out over me from hundreds of Soviet walls, and in these tinted official photographs, two or three times lifesize, his features are planed off and hardened. He was wearing a well-cut suit, dark blue verging on black, a soft white shirt with French cuffs, and a light grey tie. He placed the young interpreter from the Foreign Ministry at the head of the long, green baize conference table, and himself took a seat at the side, his back to the windows that look out across an interior courtyard...
...radically different EOKA attack on British rule in Cyprus. Colonel George Grivas. who heads EOKA, issued a leaflet announcing that he was "raising the banner of passive resistance," peremptorily ordered a boycott of British football pools and such imported British goods as cigarettes, shoes, whisky, soft drinks and sweets. Proclaimed Grivas: "Britain is sucking away the sweat of the Cypriot people. She digs her hands into their pockets and takes their money in the form of import duties, taxes, and fines...
They were so cozy that they grew soft about enforcing their agreements. Management protested that Old Warhorse Dubinsky had signed substandard contracts, with nonunion shops out of New York to organize them, thus made it tough for Manhattan manufacturers to compete. Dubinsky hotly denied it. His union countercharged that a group of fly-by-night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts. They farmed work out to nonunion shops in violation of their contract, paid subcontract wages, welshed on union benefit payments, kept several sets of books. To fight back. Dubinsky demanded that union and management stiffen their policing of contract...
...voice has a pump-organ quaver and a soft adolescent fuzz on it, the phrasing is smooth, and the sentiments belting from the jukeboxes hit the pop fans right where they love to live...
Even with the aid of the public-address system, soft-spoken Researcher Enders was scarcely audible at last week's meeting. But when he had finished, Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin yelled: "John. youVe done it again!" The assembled virologists broke ranks, stood and cheered...