Word: soft
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...communication across the color line: In Tamarac, Fla., a 20-year-old black cook was questioned by police for 45 minutes after officials at the bank where he wanted to open an account reported that he planned to rob it. In New York City a rumor that a soft drink sold in poor neighborhoods had been secretly manufactured by the Ku Klux Klan to make blacks sterile worked so well that sales plummeted 70%. And a University of Chicago survey of racial attitudes found that 3 out of 4 whites believe black and Hispanic people are more likely than whites...
Since then, passions have cooled and the public has grown weary of the Iran- contra investigation. The boyish-looking, soft-spoken Gates, during two years as first lieutenant to retiring CIA Director William Webster and two more as Deputy National Security Adviser to Bush, has assiduously cultivated key Senators. Though some Democrats vow to re-examine Gates' Iran-contra role, most Senators predict that he will be confirmed this time, barring some unexpected new evidence of wrongdoing. "Bob Gates was an exceptional deputy to Webster, an honest liaison to the congressional committees and an invaluable aide to the President...
Other stories have been more eye-opening, like an article reporting on the campaign by a younger generation of gay militants to label themselves "queers." Says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Gannett Foundation Media Center: "The Times has been ahead of the pack recently in bringing more soft news and how-to stories, plus adding a touch of tabloid sensationalism." Other newspeople are more judgmental. Says a Washington bureau chief: "The front page isn't the gauge of important news that it used...
...have it done. Physicians point out that the exams often fail to detect smaller cancers and those that originate on the front of the gland. The method is also subjective. One expert remarked that all he can tell his medical students is that the gland feels "like the soft skin at the base of the thumb" while a tumor feels "like a knuckle." Concluded Dr. William Cooner, a PSA expert at the University of South Alabama: "The rectal examination has served us very poorly." Several alternatives have been tried over the years, the most recent being an ultrasound probe. Although...
Ernst's work was continuously open to chance. The arresting drawings of his 1925 Natural History were made by laying sheets of paper on the wooden floor of his hotel room in a French seaside town and going over them with the (paternal?) soft pencil; the resulting images, altered and edited, received the name frottages, or rubbings. The name of the town, by an exquisite coincidence, was Pornic...