Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall. The Wilkins trial was high courtroom drama with a rich cast of characters: the jury, all natives of Alabama except for one man, a transplanted Floridian; Circuit Judge Thomas Werth Thagard, 63, a gently humorous man with a long and respected record of public service; the soft-spoken prosecutor, Circuit Solicitor Arthur E. Gamble Jr., 45; the melodramatic defense attorney, Matt H. Murphy Jr., 51, self-described "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan; the defendant himself, a bored auto mechanic, potbellied despite his youth; Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America...
...Haiti's 4,500,000 people, 90% are illiterate. Life expectancy is 32.6 years; per-capita income has slipped to $70 a year, lowest in the hemisphere. "Haitians," says Duvalier in his soft whisper, "have a destiny to suffer." And if his people complain, they can pray?from a 63-page Catechism of the Revolution turned out by the Government Printing Office and circulating last week in Port-au-Prince. The Lord's Prayer: "Our Doc who art in the National Palace for Life, hallowed be Thy name by present and future generations, Thy will be done...
...insistent clamor raised by academic "peace" advocates for a softening of U.S. policy in Viet Nam finally got a hard, straight reply. It came from Secretary of State Dean Rusk, normally a man given to the soft language of diplomats. Addressing a Washington meeting of the American Society of International Law, Rusk unsheathed some plain talk and slashed away with unerring accuracy and logic at the Johnson Administration's critics...
Noting that watchmakers work at curved desks so that their tools are more accessible, she has designed a crescent-shaped keyboard that places the top and bottom keys within easier reach. In addition, she has converted the loud and soft pedals into bars extending the length of the curved keyboard. With feet freed from the center of the piano, she says, the pianist can then swing to either end of the keyboard without having to do a sitdown version of the twist...
John Shepard, who will manage the club, said that he will serve wine, soft drinks, and French cheeses, but no hard liquor...