Word: soft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisp pace of the game slowed somewhat in the second stanza as the players' legs grew heavy with tramping through the soft, thick...
Picking up on a rumor that Mondale was about to crush the filibuster, Abourezk scoffed, "Ah, he wouldn't do that." Metzenbaum asked Senator Edward Kennedy about the same rumor; Kennedy too expressed disbelief. Mondale, meanwhile, was also busy buttonholing four Senators considered soft in their support of deregulation: Democrats Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Wendell Ford of Kentucky and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona; and Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island. The Vice President told them that the President would see them, one by one, if they wished; all four accepted the offer and were whisked off in waiting...
DeConcini, a freshman who favors gradual deregulation of gas, found Carter's sales pitch astoundingly low-key and polite. "Bet you're tired," the President said. Then he went right into his soft, soft sell. "There may be a key vote on this, and the Secretary [James Schlesinger] and I wanted to talk to you a little about it." As the twelve-minute discussion continued, DeConcini explained that he had campaigned in support of deregulation. "Well, I'm against controls too," Carter said. "I'm just in the position of wanting to ease...
Johnson and Martignetti hired Universal Sound, a ten-piece band from Berklee School of Music for tonight's party. Johnson says the group will play a lot of Stevie Wonder music and just "the finest in dancing music," adding that the $1.50 cover charge will include free beer and soft drinks...
Time out for a little nose-thumbing. In addition to the nickname sham, Dartmouth for years has been nothing short of paranoid that the school is not considered one of the "Big 3" of the Ivy League. They've done everything up there: added a soft ice cream machine, went sort of coed, even as far as moving the cows that supply the school's dairy products out of the basketball arena...