Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slick-paper annual report, bound in a red velvetlike cover, and the statistics in it were nearly as impressive as old John L.'s prose. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, the fund took in $157 million (its best year, largely because of increased soft-coal production), laid out $138 million in $100-a-month pensions, medical benefits, and widows' and orphans' payments to a total of 215,702 beneficiaries. The $15 million left over after administrative costs ($3,900,000) brought the fund's reserve up to a record $145 million...
...bloom off Canada's durable boom? Although 6,000,000 Canadians, more than ever before, have jobs, and the gross national product seems sure this year to edge over 1956's record, some soft spots are appearing in an economy that is closely tied to the U.S. Cautioned the Bank of Nova Scotia: "The upward trend of Canadian business has in recent months been tapering...
...Soft Snore. A dull, droning speaker at best, Thurmond began by reading the texts of the election laws of all 48 states-from Alabama to Wyoming. By 11:30, Republican Everett Dirksen was passing the word: "Boys, it looks like an all-nighter." But at 1 a.m. Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater approached Thurmond's desk, asked in a whisper how much longer Strom would last. Back came the answer: "About another hour." Goldwater asked that Thurmond temporarily yield the floor to him for an insertion in the Congressional Record. Thurmond happily consented-and used the few-minute interim...
Last week a rubber-products company, a soft-drink bottling works and the national airline were shut down, bringing the strike total since last January to more than 175. Close to 5,000 employees of the government-owned telephone company voted to strike this week unless wages are boosted. Ranging from five minutes to five months, the strikes cost the country an estimated 6,200,000 man-hours and uncounted millions of dollars in productivity...
...around the minarets and parapets of old Tunis, the NBC cameras caught some absorbing glimpses: the crowds chanting "Hi Yah Bourguiba" in the teeming souks and streets, the veiled Bedouin women greeting their first President with eerie, unearthly noises made, explained Huntley, by "bending their tongues back over their soft palates and screaming-making the tongues vibrate." The interview with Bourguiba was boiled down to 35 minutes, and the result was a candid, firsthand look at a handsome, vigorous personality who spent 27 years, half of them in jail or exile, freeing his country. After a warmup detailing his early...