Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surveyor program, which now has successfully soft-landed four out of the six spacecraft sent moonward. This remarkable average-as improbable as a pitcher tossing four no-hit games in six starts-is perhaps the greatest technological feat in the first decade of the space age. Russian space scientists have parachuted an instrument package onto Venus, but have yet to develop the approach radar and rocketry system that can set an unmanned spacecraft down on the airless moons as gently as a helicopter touches down on a landing strip...
...with notes but with a diagram of a circle containing directional signals for time, dynamics and pitch. In Corona for Strings, he achieved wispy as well as grating effects by directing the instrumentalists to improvise on the basis of colored plastic disks superimposed on their parts (yellow for soft, blue for loud...
...opened the route to the Suez Canal for Israeli armor. She has a sharp sense of color. At the village of Nahel: "The sandstorm receded, and silence took over. The horn of a burning vehicle was operating-a wan sound of alarm not to die for hours-like a soft reminder of what...
...talking with two other Negroes, apparently his managers. While his voice is too soft to hold my attention, my eyes keep returning to his tired mouth and tired face...
Committeeman John A.P. Good is the key to the rupture of the Independents. He is a pleasant, balding, soft-voiced man, who occasionally offers candy to the press and seems a caricature of the smooth and successful local politician. But since he joined the Committee last January he has been under repeated attack from Duehay, first for allegedly making a political deal and now for "cronyism." His clumsy machinations have even alienated one of his fellow Independents. Last Thursday's vote count showed Good a shaky sixth and his election is still not certain...