Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assorted rums, lime, sugar and pineapple), served by a statuesque dark-haired wahine in a billowing muu muu with a blood-red anthurium in her hair. It may come even later, as he wanders along a ginger-golden beach. Somehow, everything in Hawaii seems to be soft and warm-the air, the ocean, the sand, the music and the people...
...question of partietal inforcement, there are two camps: the tough guys and the soft guys. Wilcox, who falls in the former camp on this issue, says "I don't care whether a boy has his mother or his sister sitting in his room with him two minutes after parietals drinking tea, I will vote for his being punished." Although this may sound extreme, there is a subtle philosophy behind Wilcox's theory. If he votes to enforce parietals strictly, he can then argue that "it is none of my business what goes on in the room during parietals." The question...
...built-in darkroom aided Orbiter's remarkable performance. Unlike Ranger spacecraft, or the Surveyor that made a soft landing and televised relatively coarse pictures directly to earth, Orbiter focused the images from its medium and high-resolution lenses onto a fine-grain strip of film. After each section of the film was exposed, it was passed over a drum and pressed against a web treated with chemicals that developed it. After drying, the negative was scanned electronically, one narrow (one-tenth of an inch) strip at a time. Because each strip was electronically divided into 17,000 horizontal lines...
...Sunset Strip, the U.S. is on a demonstration kick. While collegians march against monogamy or multiversities, their once sedate mothers are mounting the barricades to battle school bussing or stop encroaching highway bulldozers. In one month, Philadelphia alone produced 15 demonstrations against such diverse targets as hard divorce laws, soft rape laws, slum landlords, black power, white power, and the Viet Nam war. Even the Janus Society hit the bricks, indignant because the Navy excludes homosexuals...
...years a Japanese Finance Ministry official, stressed that politics would not play a role in granting loans to under developed Asian countries. "I believe," he said, "that we will get along very well on the basis that economic development benefits everybody." He assured the assembled monetary experts that "soft" loans for financially insecure borrowers would be available through special funds administered by the bank. And he emphasized the bank's basically Asian character. Of the $1 billion in capital funds that will eventually be at the bank's disposal, the U.S. and Japan are the largest contributors...