Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riddle of life on Mars will probably not be solved until at least 1973, when versatile "Project Viking" capsules ejected from still another pair of orbiting spacecraft are scheduled to make soft landings on the surface of the planet. In a search for any obvious evidence of life, TV cameras aboard the landers will take pictures of the immediate surroundings. Delicate instruments will sniff and analyze the atmosphere at ground level. Mechanical devices will gulp up, digest and chemically analyze Martian soil for clues to life. In their findings, relayed back to Earth by radio, man may find the exciting...
...mood established, than composer Galt Mac Dermot and lyricists Gerome Ragni and James Rado destroy it by tipping their hats to the Times Square crowd. All of a sudden the chorus hippies are yelling out a catalogue of hallucinatory cliches ("Red Light! White light. Your skin is soft!")--and the music descends into vulgarized pop-isms reminiscent of that TV monstrosity Hullabaloo. Why? Presumably to give the uninitiated segment of the audience a quick primer in drug-visions, and in terms and comfortable rock-beat music they can understand. The result is a composition that offers something for everybody...
...tall and her hair was long and smooth--a light shade of brown. She had French blood, but her soft voice whispered the South. It was slightly dry and fell mighty easy on the ear. Her walk was a little awkward; she was young and protected. I liked that, because I had reached the point where I could prize someone who didn't know what I was going to say before I said it, someone to talk to who would surprise with her reactions--because she was innocent. Maybe I could tell her a little of what was waiting...
...expected, Anil Nayar and Larry Terrell, at one and two, won easily. Nayar alternated between blistering drives and soft drop shots, winning in three straight games. Terrell overpowered Eliot Berry of Penn with crisp, hard crosscourt drives, eventually winning in four games...
...dropped in the past year from 527.8 billion to 526.5 billion. Many teenagers no longer feel obliged to smoke; it is no longer necessarily the thing to do. Responding to these ill portents, cigarette companies have accelerated their diversification drives, which have spread them into such businesses as soft drinks, cosmetics and pet foods...