Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome but blinding snowstorm, which nevertheless did not prevent some 6,000 shivering Kansans from greeting the President at the airport. So fierce was the blizzard that crash trucks lined the Garden City runway to spotlight a path for Presidential Pilot Bill Draper, who babied the Columbine into a soft snap of a landing under weather conditions that gave the shakes to a group of Air Force pilots waiting and watching on the ground...
After the first week's trial, one analyst last week stretched contentedly in the soft office chair, sighed: "I just can't tell you how much less tired I've been feeling at the end of each working day." As for the patients, one psychiatrist said: "I'd summarize patient reaction as a kind of 'Wow!'" Another found a patient hesitant about "speaking terrible thoughts amid all this beauty," but another patient looked around, exclaimed: "There's something optimistic here...
...with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance in their jobs and they often become upset. Sometimes they even slug law-abiding citizens...
...demonstrate one of his favorite maxims: "Hard work never killed a healthy man." Unpuffingly shoveling snow piled behind his Beacon Street office, Dr. White advised all healthy folks to take exercise in keeping with their age and general physical tone, build up to exertion slowly if they're soft, certainly not refrain from snow shoveling if their only ailment is just being 70. Said the doctor with some concern: "We are already becoming a soft race dependent on gadgets which are not likely to protect our youth from the chief hazards of tomorrow...
...Ferrer makes his pitch at a meeting of the network's top brass, throwing them a soft sell, very sincere, about how he would conduct the full hour, coast-to-coast memorial show being planned for the dead man as "a portrait in sound of the common man magnified." As the camera plays on the alert faces of the brass, each attentive but ready to cut off the speaker's head at the first false note, it is plain that Ferrer's fate is riding on the words he is improvising. When he finishes, the boss breaks...