Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing its part--prompted his keen interest in race relations. In 1944, he gave a course in minority group problems to Boston police captains; three years later he gave a similar course to Cambridge police officers. And again, shrugging off the notion that the subject was too "soft" for useful study, he began a systematic consideration of prejudice; it lead to the 1954 publication of this classic on the subject, The Nature of Prejudice...
...other hand, the White House usually lets the press know that these meetings occur, that the confrontations were thoroughly amicable. This one-sided leak, a time-honored political maneuver, is meant to convince Americans with intellectual pretensions that any President who spends so much time soft-soaping their brethren can't be that misguided after...
...soft sounds of summer were not disturbed by the tinsel thundering of the summit. By now, most have forgotten and few care to remember...
Conducting an experimental program in 25 hospitals in 14 countries, the council delivered its message to 300,000 women. In some hospitals, the approach was soft sell, with tasteful leaflets, individual talks and optional group discussions. In Ankara and Trivandrum, the birth controllers took advantage of the fact that they had a captive audience: over loudspeakers, interspersed between news and music, were frequent plugs for family planning and playlets demonstrating its benefits. Worldwide, one woman out of three accepted birth-control advice and supplies (free or at nominal cost), including pills and intrauterine devices. Among these 101,725 women...
Turner has challenged few previous conglomerate-type mergers, and the courts have issued nothing in the way of clear-cut guidelines even in those cases. Turner, who once took a go-soft line on conglomerate get-togethers, now seems to be stiffening up. Said he last March...