Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enchanting fairy tale in the old tradition of the poor boy who makes good. The surprise comes when the book's narrator is revealed to be the one missing rabbit needed to complete the last row of the formation marching before the king's court. Lovely, soft illustrations make this a first-rate picture book...
While Abernathy was calming congressional sympathizers last Wednesday, Bevel, in contrast, was giving reporters a hard line at a press conference. Abernathy himself has been vacillating. No one knows whether he is "hard" or "soft." He seems to change his mind daily...
...extractors could save the metal and reduce incineration by 10%. The packaging industry could do a profound service by switching to materials that rot-fast. The perfect container for mankind is the edible ice-cream cone. How about a beer container that is something like a pretzel? Or the soft-drink bottle that, when placed in the refrigerator, turns into a kind of tasty artificial ice? Soft drinks could also come in frozen form, as popsicles with edible sticks...
...Soft in the Middle. Like an aging athlete whose stomach muscles have turned to flab, U.S. trade shows a soft middle. Exports consist heavily of raw materials (coal, grains and soybeans, for example) and the high-technology output of the world's most research-minded corporations (computers, aircraft, electronics). Between those extremes, chronic trade-balance weakness is suffered by at least 122 manufacturing industries. Among them: steel, paper, food-and-drink, glass, textiles, apparel, lumber, leather, shipbuilding, autos, watches and sporting goods. In 1-966, those 122 provided 35% of the nation's industrial jobs, but they...
...warm up. When the red dots on top of the curlers turn black, they are ready to be lifted off their individual rods and deployed. Without water, lotions or gels, dry hair can be curled around the hot rollers for five to ten minutes to achieve anything from a soft flip to Shirley Temple curls...