Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crying Halt. First to cry halt was respected, soft-voiced Mohammed Hatta, himself a Sumatran, who resigned as Vice President in December largely because of his chief's overt flirtation with the Communists...
...roller-skating rink, WGBH-TV takes full advantage of its freedom from sponsors and their demands. Its leisurely, professorial pace and erratic showmanship would send Madison Avenue professionals out for triple martinis. Scheduled shows often run overtime. Between programs, instead of the hard sell there is often soft classical music...
Brennan's soft answer turned away no wrath: still determined to fight Brennan's Senate confirmation, McCarthy ranted away trying to make it appear that Roman Catholic Brennan was soft on Communism. Clasping his hands on the table in front 'of him, Brennan answered Joe's questions calmly. But even when Joe gave it up as a bad job, he could still fall back on the explanation he had made at the hearing's start: "I don't have any high hopes of being successful in opposition to Justice Brennan's nomination...
Thailand's soft-voiced but strong-willed Premier Pibulsonggram came home from a state tour of Europe and the U.S. a year and a half ago full of the wonders of democracy. Expansively he urged his countrymen to erect themselves a Hyde Park for uninhibited soapbox oratory, offered them the kite-flying ground next to the royal palace. Going his new friend Dwight Eisenhower one better, Pibul instituted weekly press conferences, forced his hapless ministers to appear and answer rude reportorial questions about their carefree handling of public funds...
...This new G.O.P.," complains H. Frederick Hagemann Jr., president of the Rockland-Atlas National Bank of Boston, "has lost sight of its 1952 goals. It has soft-pedaled on cutting Government expenditures. It has slowed down on its job of getting the Government out of business. It has adopted the socio-economic policies of the New and Fair Deals...