Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...granary under the Food for Peace (now Food for Freedom) law, which since 1954 has exported $15 billion worth of food. Envisioned as a hybrid of humanitarianism, diplomacy and hard-nosed dumping of surplus crops, the overseas program by 1971 will require payments in dollars rather than soft currencies, and ostensibly will make nations push their own food supply. Meanwhile, laboratories continue to cultivate new ideas. The latest range from weeding row crops with flame throwers and laying asphalt hardpans for instant upland rice paddies all the way to the science-fiction realm. One scheme being seriously examined in pilot...
...Soft Shoe. Hope could have retired years ago, but it was not only his enjoyment of show business that prevented it. Too many people are dependent on him; besides, he says, "I've got a government to support." His gifts to charity are calculated in their entirety only by Hope, but unquestionably they run into the millions of dollars. He recently donated $802,000 to S.M.U. for a theater, $125,000 to the Los Angeles Music...
...been waiting 18 months to get out, and thinks it will be another eight months at least. Since he has lost his job, his girl sends him Wilkinson Sword razor blades from the U.S., which he sells illegally for a dollar apiece on the streets. He sips a soft-drink from a Coca-Cola bottle between boisterous gesticulations: "After a while," he says, with everyone else in the cafe looking and listening, "after a while, you get desperate...
Visually, Director-Writer Oldfich Lipsky has made his film almost as zany as the plot; when Lemonade Joe enters Death Valley, he jumps down a vast canyon-only to enjoy a landing as soft as his drink. In a shootout, bullets meet in mid-air and cancel each other. A henchman pulls rabbits and bouquets from his holster. Street signs are all in English, but the dialogue is laconically drawled in jawbreaking Czech. "Hands up" is the kind of phrase that can only gain in translation-particularly when the translation is "Ruky hore...
...have had various successes in both the mile and two-mile relays. At this moment the spotlight is on the quartet that set the mark in the longer distance against B.U. Tuesday night. This group is anchored by William Burns, alternately referred to as "Trey," "George," or "Bullet," a soft-spoken Baltimorian who grew up idolizing Villanova's Davie Patrick. He coasted home Tuesday with a 1:58 split, two seconds slower than both Dave McKelvey and Jeff Huvelle, who often run identical times in the event they share, the 600. McKelvey is the wide-eyed Motor City partner...