Word: soft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friends of Civiletti, 44, a prematurely graying father of three teenagers, do not disagree with that self-effacing assessment. It is the professionalism of the soft-spoken New York-born lawyer that his colleagues at the Justice Department most admire. He had been personally plucked out of a successful law practice in Baltimore by Georgian Charles Kirbo, President Carter's top preInauguration adviser, to head the department's criminal division. In his service there, Civiletti won praise as a "lawyers' lawyer" who believed in strong preparation for building criminal cases that would stand up in court...
...more vivid contrast to strutting President Tacho Somoza than the cool, unflappable man who has taken his place as the dominant figure in Nicaragua's government. Sergio Ramírez Mercado, 36, is a baby-faced intellectual who attracts little attention until he begins to speak, in a soft, nasal voice. But his quiet charisma has enabled the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) writer to win the confidence of all the factions represented on the five-member ruling junta and its 15-member Cabinet, though the ideologies range from the doctrinaire Marxism of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega...
...sail aloft, but more experienced wind-surfers are less dependent on muscle power, having learned to use their bodies for leverage. With practice one can reach speeds of 30 m.p.h. Speeds vary according to the weight of the rider: heavier sailors fare better in strong winds, lighter ones in soft breezes...
...Voyager I flew past Jupiter this March, satellites that has been mere specks of light suddenly became full-fledged whirls, each with its own pecularities. Io, a conglomeration of soft red and white blotches, reminded one scientist of a cheese pizza. Eight volcanoes were photographed in mid-eruption. A frosty covering of ice dominated another of the satellites; still another is criss-crossed by ridges that resemble those caused by continental drift on earth. Eleven worlds have come into focus since Apollo...
...hear kids today listen to music and get lost in it," von Schmidt complains, 'and escape into it." They'll say that folk's boring or its too soft or too slow, and I'll say, 'Well don't you think it's more sensitive?' But when people need to figure out what's going on in the world and who they are, when the energy crisis comes on so bad that middle class people are out in the backyard chopping up wood, I think you may see a resurgence in this type of music. It's sensitive...