Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these times of euphemism-of a softening of language as soft as the brains of those who are softening it-let us not forget that Whitman was a bully, a pervert and a coward. He was a pervert in that he enjoyed murdering more than not murdering. He was a coward in that he fled his problems through death-and had not the courage to take his own life, but forced the responsibility on another...
...power and killed many of their leaders. It was also designed to forestall another coup, which dissatisfied Southern Ibos had reportedly been plotting against the regime they had put in power. The Southern gripe was simple: Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, an Ibo himself, had proved too soft on the Northerners...
...Thrill of Showing Off. The tastes of the audience, which ballots by mail for the winners (average weekly mail: 9,000 cards), are shifting. Going out of popularity are one-man bands, soft-shoe dancers, Dixieland, harmonicas and stringed instruments; coming in strong are folk singers, guitars, guitars and guitars. The Hour still has its share of artists who play rhythms with fire extinguishers, punching bags, bones, bicycle pumps, balloons, spoons, glasses and bottles-naturally, Geritol bottles...
...turn enlisted the rowdiest ruffians around into gangs of guards. No one really knows what "Mafia" means, but by the last century all Sicily knew what the Mafia was: a randy band, held together by blood oaths and eerie ritual, whose product was "Protection" and whose sell was never soft. Farmers paid to have their cattle not killed or their wells not poisoned. Lovers paid for the right to a few unharried moments in the moonlight. All the institutions of Sicilian society-church, aristocracy, political parties-either went along with the Mafia or actively participated in it. In one monastery...
They also suggest that atmospheric pressure in the dusty lowlands is higher than previously believed -- high enough for a spacecraft to make a soft landing with a parachute instead of the more complex retro-rockets...