Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blonde, blue-eyed Actress Virginia Payne has never missed a performance, stands loyally by the washboard weepers. "Radio is a companion and these characters are friends to millions of lonely people," she says in a soft, nasal voice. "It is not supposed to be a pretentious art form. It is not Aristotelian with beginnings, middles and endings, but a series of situations and characters that must extend and develop over great periods of time. Our critics are people who do not stay with us." Although key telegrams are still delivered on the Friday program and opened on Monday, Actress Payne...
...Soft Spots. The boom has had its price. The national debt, only $202 million when Batista took over, now tops $700 million. International monetary reserves dropped from $593 million in 1952 to $333 million by last May. But the budget has been balanced for the past two years, and the reserves are still almost double the necessary minimum. National income this year is estimated at a record $2.2 billion...
...many businessmen, worried about soft spots in the economy, the nation's bankers last week gave solid reassurance of the continued strength of the boom. The demand for credit for expansion of all kinds is still so great-and money so tight-that Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. boosted its prime rate for loans from 4% to 4½%. Banks around the country soon followed. Two days later the Federal Reserve Board approved a boost in the discount rate by four of its twelve district banks from 3% to 3½%. The new Fed rates, highest since...
...Platero? He "is a small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, with no bones. Only the jet mirrors of his eyes are hard like two black crystal scarabs." He is the constant companion of Poet Jiménez as he walks along the streets of his Andalusian town of Moguer and revels in the beauties of the dramatic Spanish landscape that surrounds it. Sickly and reserved, Jiménez talks to Platero, pours out his poetic cries of delight and despair as he witnesses the beauties...
...failed-priest face," the customary taste for booze, and the symbolical death -Brennan falls from the height of Gaudi's grotesque unfinished Barcelona Church of the Holy Family. It is all pretty thick stuff, but an angry, eloquent passion against the paralyzing Red ticks in Europe's soft underbelly redeems it from mere melodrama...