Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stanley criticized liberals and conservatives, intellectuals and dilettantes, and everyone from "that fine local institution, Harvard," for being soft on Communism. His speech, entitled "Red Heads of State," illustrated how the Communists have moved nowhere since World War II without the indirect--or direct--aid of the United States...
...storm center during the campaign, but he is a take-charge man after Johnson's own heart, has mastered the Pentagon bureaucracy as has no Defense Secretary before him, and of all the Cabinet officers probably stands highest with the President. Secretary of State Dean Rusk has made soft sounds about leaving for financial reasons, but the President likes him and he will probably stay on for a while...
...Cover) In Texas throughout Election Day, Lyndon Johnson, so overwhelmingly loquacious in past weeks, was understandably subdued. Now and then, as newsmen caught up with him, the President uttered only soft-toned commonplaces, totally noncommittal, often downright diffident. Only once was he caught off guard. Had he consulted with any of his political advisers? Replied he, in one of those remarks that somehow jar the image of the presidency: "The only political adviser I talked to I slept with...
There were soft spots in the Harvard game, but the team bore little resemblance to the gang that got battered by Dartmouth, 48-0, a week ago. It had to be admitted too, that last-place Penn didn't look much like Dartmouth...
...Ball," George A. K. Armah describes a little boy who disobeys his mother once, is punished, and is puzzled by life. That's all. Within fifteen lines the style varies from "Behind the soft sweetness of the aaahh there is hidden a mighty pain which will not be satisfied until the sea has exacted its vengeance," to "It was not that his mother was cruel or anything like that...