Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Archie will probably be out for blood today against Harvard, and being a classical-type scholar as well as a science wonk, he'll probably be aiming for Harvard's soft underbelly, pass defense...
...your cover story about Charles Percy [Sept. 18], you say: "Into the race swept State Treasurer William Scott. 37, a strong Goldwater supporter, who accused Percy of everything, from being in cahoots with Chicago mobsters to being soft on Communism." I would appreciate it if you would correct this false charge...
...then Goldwater went even farther. He revived an old and ugly phrase -"soft on Communism." Said he in Cincinnati: "I charge that this Administration is soft on Communism." He underlined the phrase in his text, repeated it in his barnstorming in Illinois and Indiana. "The cause of peace," he said, "will not be served by men who are soft on Communism...
...Committee noted that the present program neglects non-western cultures and does not give enough attention to the behavioral sciences. Finally, the Committee deplored a general underemphasis of the Natural Sciences--roughly half of Harvard and Radcliffe students take only one science course and that is often a soft, non-lab offering...
Nevertheless, Molesworth mentioned "violence in the streets" several times in his rebuttal, attributing it to the "soft attitude towards law breakers of LBJ, John McCormack and a liberal Supreme Court...