Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the insulated viewpoint of the pre-season forecaster, three of the last four games on Harvard's schedule looked like soft, soft deal. Sure, Princeton would be tough, but any fool could see that Penn. Brown, and Yale (yes, even Yale) would be pushovers...
...Washington has in fact begun to adopt this strategy. Sheehan wrote recently from Saigon that "American diplomats and military commanders here are...not pinning any hopes on Geneva. They are, instead, preparing for a long war." A recent article in Newsweek reported that "suddenly" it has become "fashionable" to "soft-pedal talk of a diplomatic settlement...
...soft light and air-conditioned comfort of the Sala Santitham (Peace Hall) in Bangkok's United Nations Building, Indians smiled at Pakistanis, Nationalist Chinese hobnobbed with Russians, and Cambodian delegates rubbed shoulders with their recent Thai enemies. The French, as is their growing custom where international cooperation is involved, stayed away-and so, of course, did the Chinese Communists. But 28 nations sent delegates, including a 14-member U.S. team led by Assistant Treasury Secretary Merlyn N. Trued and-remarkably-a high-ranking, five-man delegation from the Soviet Union. All of them came to Bangkok last week...
...started processing its own food to ensure quality for its restaurants, has gone on to become one of Britain's biggest food producers. It dominates the British bakery field with its 14 bakeries, is winning an increasingly large part of the ice cream market. The firm also markets soft drinks, stores a million bottles of wine in a cellar beneath Southwark, runs five hotels and a 1,000-car parking garage under Hyde Park...
...generation of ants came along, and they were much cleverer. Instead of attacking in the open, the ants lured the elephant deep into the thick bamboo, where he could neither see nor move about easily. The ants swarmed up his legs and attacked his eyes, mouth and the soft pink flesh inside his trunk. The elephant thrashed around, confused and maddened, and in the end he was reduced to a pile of whitened bones...