Word: soft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last bomb." Scott's welcome last week was not marred by the hostilities of the past. "The Cambodians were glad to see us," he says. "They were grateful for the food and medicine that Operation California brought and anxious to demonstrate the calamitous situation in which that soft and lovely country finds itself...
...spirit of such soft-core sports events as "Battle of the NFL Cheerleaders," "Battle of the Network Superstars," and "Battle of the Soap Opera Idols," ETS has introducted its own barely-athletic competition. Taking the best elements of "Name That Tune," "The Price is Right," and "Password Plus," ETS is now playing "Guess Your Score," a rigorous psychic battle pitting student against testing service official...
Justin plodded forward, each step tortuously sinking into the soft snow. Only two more days, he told himself repeatedly. The communication between the two men was spare. Talking exacerbated the misery: not worth the energy. Energy is a valuable commodity in the Northwest Territories, Justin thought...
...prosecution. His Attorney General had approved the deal and informed the Home Secretary, but the Prime Minister had been bypassed. That admission raised the question of how closely supervised are the intelligence agencies by high-level government ministers. Pointing up the issue of class, Labor M.P.s charged that the soft treatment accorded Blunt was evidence that Britain's "old boy" network was ever ready to protect one of its own from public wrath (see ESSAY). As Scottish M.P. William Hamilton angrily put it, the upper-class establishment had been so determined to protect its members that it had allowed...
...face of an angel, with its big, blue, innocent eyes, soft, pouting lips and a frame of blond hair that glowed like the sun with youth and health. It was a face that stopped all talk whenever she entered any gathering of people--a face that subjugated all men to her will...