Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salesmen, the show soon catapults Actor Preston into River City. There he first catches the town's eye with a kind of stylish evangelical pitch called Trouble, then clutches the town by the lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making to the librarian. Number after number-street gossipers, the arrival of cornets by Wells Fargo, a Shipoopi in a gym-has its own blared or strutted, puppet-jiggled or cricket-chirped animation. In the title role, a Preston who had never danced...
...NATO sense of urgency, stall the new IRBM, and sow new uncertainties among NATO nations. But one of the Kremlin's greatest current assets in its campaign was not of the Kremlin's fabrication. It was the re-emergence of the free world's own "soft line," dimmed after Hungary, dimmed again after the Soviets walked out on last summer's prolonged, painstaking disarmament talks. Once more it is echoing influentially around the world, from Washington editorialists to London Laborites to Nehru and Co. in New Delhi, and it is being heard with widespread respect, especially...
...Spreading Unease. From New York to Norway, the soft line-though not always as soft as Kennan's-broke out anew last week from influential people. Among them...
...somebody else's ambassadors, is now the most promising evolving element of the total NATO power. Item: disarmament talks, when conducted with excess optimism (e.g., the 1957 discussions), can create the complacent type of climate in which Soviet geopoliticians and missilemen are likely to forge ahead. Basically, the soft line is based on the proposition that further armament and continued tension will speedily become intolerable-for the West-and that compromise must be achieved no matter what the cost. Furthermore, in the view of some soft-line advocates, Russia is ahead politically and militarily anyhow, so it is time...
...which set up the separate U.S. Air Force and was also designed-though with numerous compromises-to "unify" the armed services. As President of the U.S., Dwight Eisenhower has a better basic knowledge of how the services work than any President in modern history. Yet, paradoxically, one of the soft spots of his Administration record is that, during the regime of Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, Ike let Pentagon administration get out of hand...