Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drifted in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks. Some were fortunate enough to be sent to prison for 1½ years and, after suffering the most inhuman psychological tortures, to be reunited with whatever remained of their families. Was all this caused by the lack of nerve of a soft President...
...threat of it normally booms the prices of commodities-the raw materials of tomorrow's meals and manufactures. Last week, however, the world prices of such "soft" commodities as coffee, wool and sugar fell, and prices of such "hard" military sinews as copper, tin and lead barely responded to Lyndon Johnson's decision to increase the U.S. commitment in Viet...
...certain our Guatemalan operation would succeed. And, Mr. President, the prospects for this [Cuba] plan are even better than they were for that one." There was a strong suggestion that Kennedy could not afford to back away from a long-prepared anti-Castro project and appear to be soft on Communism-softer than the Republicans had been. If the Cuban exile brigade were disbanded, it was argued, they would fan out all over Latin America, and explain how the U.S. "had lost its nerve" in the fight against Communism. "Having created the brigade as an option," says Schlesinger...
...Goodlad, director of U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School, proposed a highly selective sample testing of a representative few students and the use of computers to break the results into age groups, regions and types of schools. The aim: to rate groups not individuals, and thus pinpoint educational "soft spots...
...when "circus" was a word with magic, when kids impatiently waited through the year until the big tent went up again. And what they waited for most was the instant when a trim, 5-ft. 6-in. man, dressed in spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon the first ferocious cat into the cage...