Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Towery, is to compete against the Communists. "I want to beat 'em down," he says, "and I don't care whether it takes the liberal or conservative viewpoint to do it. I'm a pragmatist." He adds: "Frankly, there are people in this agency who are soft on Communism. But we will not have any trouble as long as they do what is expected of them...
...gained a cynical, ruthless reputation that made him the villain of Joe McGinniss' book, The Selling of the President 1968. In one incident, McGinniss reports that Shakespeare, when told of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exulted: "What a break! This Czech thing is just perfect. It puts the soft-liners in a hell...
...Western hands-and its capture is a coup of considerable significance. The Israelis acquired the Sukhoi as the result of sheer luck. Its Egyptian pilot bailed out after the plane was hit over the Giddi Pass in Sinai. The Sukhoi then made an unbelievably smooth belly landing in the soft, flat sand. Trucked away under camouflage nets, it was quickly made flightworthy. Israeli pilots who have flown it find that the Sukhoi reaches a Mach 1.6 speed, climbs at the rate of 23,500 ft. per min. and can carry 3.5 tons of ordnance...
...style is called either Belle Époque (after turn-of-the-century coiffures), or "Oscar's hairdo" (after Designer Oscar de la Renta, who put topknots on all the models at his spring collections last month). Mr. Kenneth finds the look soft, romantic, and most important, "not terrifying to a man. To him, it looks as if it's all up there with just one pin, and he's got to think 'If only I can find it, in a matter of seconds it will all be out on the pillow...
...continue after the three-game intermission. Hobbs took his anger out on Frank Cushman, 15-9, 15-6. Sophomore Paul Brown had the closest win of the match-15-10, 15-13, 13-15, 15-13-but Barnaby said. "He was busy trying out some new soft stuff...