Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accused marines hired a civilian lawyer, protested they had only been doing their duty and that soft Navy standards were the cause of the ruckus. Said tough Sergeant Robert J. Barbuti, 23, a brig warden charged with 82 counts of maltreatment: "Those guys were in the brig for beating up Japanese women, taking dope, larceny and that kind of thing. They were undisciplined, and we were only enforcing discipline." Then he added defensively: "I only did what I was trained by the Corps to do. If I am guilty then the whole Corps is guilty...
...edition, De Lawd becomes The Lord; he speaks grammatically now, no longer smokes 10? see-gars, is not addressed by irreverent gamblers any more as Liver Lips or even High Pockets; instead they call him Preacher Man. According to a spokesman, the whole cast will speak with "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will...
...opera was off the beaten track, the passage soft and opulent, and the boys from Local 802 were not digging it. "Say," said one to Conductor Arnold U. Gamson, "you're highbrow, aren't you?" Patiently Gamson explained what the passage was about, finally told them: "It's like the music for a striptease." That did it. The violins became silky, the horns impassioned, and everyone proceeded with the rehearsal of Anna Bolena, one of Gaetano Donizetti's rarely played masterpieces...
...ballet-though of course they are not people, but dear little bunnies. Producer Disney has even provided Perri with a love interest: a bushy-tailed charmer named Porro. As Porro chatters away at Perri in squirrel language, Narrator Winston Hibler translates the scene in a voice so warm and soft that children in the audience may almost mistake it for Perri's own. "To every creature." he gently explains, "comes the time of together . . . Perri understands . . . her moment of fulfillment is at hand...
Clark pointed to the historical examples of both the ancient Athenian and the modern Western European democracies, which "grew soft" and were consequently taken over by foreign dictators. America cannot afford to maintain this "complacency," he said...