Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soft Sell. The hope of the Symington camp is that the other hopefuls' handicaps will keep any No. 1 choice from grabbing off the nomination on the early ballots, and that the deadlock-menaced convention will turn to just-about-everybody's No. 2, Stuart Symington, the man with no serious political scars or scabs...
...travels around the country to show himself to local Democratic politicos, Symington uses a soft and amiable sell, makes no effort to wring promises of convention support. The hard selling of Stuart Symington as presidential timber is done by his backers. This week, Missouri Congressman Charles ("Charley") Brown, longtime Springfield adman and television executive, sets out on a 15-state trip to drum up support for Symington. Around the end of November, Missouri's Governor James Blair will depart on a similar missionary trek to sell the Symington cause, especially to Democratic Governors. Symington's behind-the-scenes...
...league, the Crimson must win all its remaining games (Princeton, Brown, Yale), to threaten, and of these, today's contest with Princeton will unquestionably be the toughest. Brown has Choquette but little else; Yale racked up an impressive unbeaten, untied, and unscored on record, but lost it against relatively soft opposition. There is nothing weak, however, about the Tigers...
...herself and the boy who would love her. He feels too proud to marry a rich girl when he is too poor to support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose interest. Jacques cannot be really interested, because the money she thinks her greatest charm squashes his masculine ego. He covets an impoverished cigarette girl. All the time that Kautner emphasizes this self-made chasm, however, he seems to suggest that deceptions actually are inherent...
...Should I stretch out or sit up?" Vag asked himself. "I might as well compromise." He sat down on a soft red chair at the far end of the room, put his feet up on a coffee table, and began to read. "If I study without underlining this time," he thought, "if should improve my memory...