Word: soft
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Despite having been a television producer and host from 1965 to 1976, Dornan was highly critical of televised political debates and politicians involved in debates, in response to a question about soft money...
...contributions. But if Clinton didn't solicit funds at the sessions, others allegedly did it for him. At a coffee in the Map Room on June 18, 1996, Democratic National Committee fund-raiser John Huang introduced the President to 13 guests with a sell that was anything but soft. "Elections cost money, lots and lots of money," he reportedly said, "and I am sure that every person in this room will want to support the re-election of President Clinton." This account, by a Johns Hopkins University professor who testified before Congress in September, has been disputed by others...
Yauch himself is remarkably slight and soft-spoken, given the aggressiveness of his group's punk-rap music but then since he began practicing Tibetan Buddhism, the group spits into the crowd a lot less. Yauch, brought up secularly by a Jewish father and Catholic mother, first meditated after attending teachings by the Dalai Lama in India in 1992. "It felt logical to me," he explains. "Real, not hokey." He spends anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours a day in cross-legged contemplation. Back braced against the wall--a flaw in technique, he'll admit--he repeats short prayers...
...happens, there is. Harry Greene, 52, a soft-spoken, Southern-accented biology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, not only believes snakes have been badly maligned but has also made it his life's work to wage war on ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). It hasn't been easy, he admits. Even the saintly Albert Schweitzer, who went out of his way to avoid stepping on bugs, didn't hesitate to shoot the beings whose distinguishing characteristics are a slithering gait, a forked tongue and hypodermic-needle fangs that can (if they belong to Australia's cobra-like inland taipan...
Taking a quick glance around the room filled with photos that now seem invisibly labeled "before" and "after," Mayer smiles and turns back to a pile of soft cover photo albums...