Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diaries of the era, Morgenthau described the scene in Roosevelt's bedroom at daily meetings to set the bidding price for gold. The reclining President "would eat his soft-boiled eggs" while aides discussed the price the U.S. should pay. Once, when Morgenthau was gloomier than usual, Roosevelt decreed a 21? increase because "three times seven is a lucky number." Only later did Morgenthau realize that The Chief was joking. Thanks largely to Morgenthau's stewardship, the dollar by 1939 was the world's strongest currency...
...tractioned by rear tanklike belt treads, and steered by handle bars attached to two front-running skis. On steep downhill runs, they give the driver all the thrills he can handle; yet, piloted sensibly, they are relatively safe. In a spill, the driver is usually thrown clear into soft snow, and the snowmobile stops as soon as his hands release the throttle...
...face except of Buddhist images and prehistoric haniwa figurines." In and one furious prehistoric sitting, the artist squatted on the floor and filled a large sketchbook with his drawings. Back at his studio, he transferred a composite of his sketches to five blocks- one for each color -of a soft Japanese wood called sen, from which the cover portrait was made...
...trying to develop a soft cushion of economic development around China," says one Japanese Foreign Office expert. This "encirclement by prosperity" resulted last April in the largest all-Asian conference that Tokyo had witnessed since General Hideki Tojo's original Co-Prosperity Sphere conclave ia 1943. Six Asian nations attended-Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos and South Viet Nam, while Cambodia and Indonesia sent observers. The consequent exchange of information about economic aid needs and Sato's reminder that Southeast Asia receives only $2.50 per capita in foreign aid from all sources (v. $5 for Africa...
...Beckett's play Happy Days. Not all of Smith's imagery is negative. One of his works is a simple 10-ft.-high, well-proportioned arch that invites the viewer to pass through. "It is like a threshold," says Smith. "My friends say it looks sort of soft and tender, but, to me, at the same time it also looks the least bit rough and harsh." Aptly enough, it is titled Marriage...