Word: soft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston, the voters tossed out of office a trio of the city's antibusing leaders, including Louise Day Hicks, the soft-spoken but tough-talking former councilwoman who had become the symbol of resistance to integration. Simultaneously, however, the voters turned down a reform of the city charter designed to make it harder-by changing representational patterns-for one small, determined group, like the antibusers, to have more power than they deserve. Charter reform succumbed to a cautious electorate that preferred to switch candidates instead of the system...
...J.R.R. Tolkien. Throughout the book that bears their name, the little creatures are treated soberly as an endangered species "well out of sight, so much so in fact that belief in their existence is waning rapidly." A series of maps, anatomical charts, even recipes are provided, enlivened with sly, soft-focus illustrations by Rien Poortvliet. Gnomes one of the season's very few new books designed to be savored by the entire family. That the male gnome remains potent until about 350 years of age or that the buxom females, unencumbered by gravity, go braless may be of greater...
Whatever the union's success in changing public attitudes, PUMA's efforts to fill the vacuum of services for women "in the life" magnify the group's importance for beyond the small number of active members, and raise possible solutions to long-ignored problems. One soft-spoken, gray-haired guest at the Halloween party said, "I'am a customer and I'm here because they provide a service, and I support them...
...lost and Darmouth is still in the Ivy League, and I gotta believe they're having free rounds at the soft ice cream machine up in Hanover...
Aronson and Medenica supervise the fund-raising and mechanical aspects of the team, but the really essential member is 23-year-old Herne, whose hair-raising driving exploits earned him the sobriquet "Hero" at the beginning of the season. A soft-spoken native of Williamstown, Mass., Herne is so devoted to the sport that he poured all of his savings into the team. Currently, Herne's finances are so tight that he is forced to sleep on a friend's couch. He is now looking for a job to help meet expenses for next year. Herne says that like every...