Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vegas about the charge that one of the major parties was in "collusion" with George Wallace, Agnew snapped: "That charge is not sufficiently dignified to require a comment. The word 'collusion' has nasty connotations." He added with appropriate disdain: "It's as bad as 'soft on Communism...
...police methods traces the debacle back to the riots in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination last spring. Said the official: "Daley went crazy. He couldn't believe that his city could do it to him." Daley publicly rebuked his police superintendent for being too soft on the rioters-even though most responsible law officers around the nation commended the Chicago police for their behavior. The mayor compounded his mistake by issuing his approval of shooting looters. The overall effect was to undermine the police department's chain of command and encourage the ranks...
...insisted its creator, Detroit-born James Lee Byars, "but it doesn't belong in a category. There is something of soft sculpture in it, but there is also something psychic in it. It's a participation." Perhaps a better word for it might be psychosculpture...
...emancipated woman, who, along with the right to vote, can now have a cigarette made for her. "You've got your own cigarette now, baby," cool TV commercials for Slims. "You've come a long long way." To emphasize the point, Virginia Slims will be sold in soft-colored "purse packs" that few men will feel like filching from...
...second theory disagrees on this fundamental point. It argues that the Russians must have known that no U. S. president, for domestic political reasons, could afford to be 'soft on communists' during an election year. They must have known Johnson was planning to release the agenda for the new disarmament talks worked out between U. S. and Russian representatives the day the Warsaw Pact forces marched into Czechoslovakia. These were talks the Russians were reportedly very eager to start. The invasion was bound to delay ratification of the non-proliferation treaty which was waiting in the Senate as well...