Word: soft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...title at least, it appeared that the top man in the new regime would be the Prime Minister, Noor Mohammed Taraki, 61. He is a soft-spoken novelist and journalist who was once (1952-53) an attaché at the Afghan embassy in Washington. More recently, as leader of the 15,000-member Khalq (Masses) Party, Afghanistan's principal Communist faction, Taraki led a campaign against the domination of the long powerful Mohammed Zahir family, to which both Daoud and the cousin-King he had deposed belonged. Taraki was periodically imprisoned for his activities; indeed, he was in jail...
...clearing throat): I fear I have been soft...
...fact, 65 undergraduates at MIT major in economics, making it one of the university's smallest concentration; by comparison, some 600 Harvard undergrads have chosen the soft science as their field, thus ranking it the college's largest enrolled major...
Rules of the Game. At the Central Square, daily at 5:30 and 9:40. With The Soft Skin at 7:30. Wknd...
Nineteen months have elapsed since that tragic day in September; 19 months since the Justice Department investigation began. Only now do Michael Moffitt's original assumptions seem to be borne out by the facts FBI investigators have garnered. Moffitt is a soft-spoken 26-year-old. He is friendly, yet constrained; he seems to be goaded on by the urgency of his duties. The pain is there, but it is forceably overcome. Moffitt, who joined the IPS, a Washington-based think tank, five year ago and worked under Richard Barnett before joining Letelier, says he always worried about an attempted...