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...Bamu, for example. She was a real Nigerian beauty, "with a skin as pale and glistening as milk chocolate, high, firm breasts, round, strong arms." Johnson, "black as a stove," all floppy arms and legs, and with a body "as narrow as a skinned rabbit's," tried to soften up Bamu with sweet talk: "What pretty breasts-God bless you with them." But Bamu could not be honeyed, she had to be bought. After a full day of hysterical bargaining, Johnson got her on the installment plan. By the time Bamu's family was through with him, they...
Without this sense of contingency, "there isn't any springboard for theistic metaphysics * ...After all, how would one expect [traditional metaphysics] to soften up a monolithic materialist like H. G. Wells, or an anti-humanist like Picasso, or a happy naturalist like British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle...
Part Two of Plievier's story picks up Wenzel, again flat broke, in another South American port. He wanders into the waterfront dive run by Milly, a "shark" who helps shanghai drunken sailors into freighter crews. Wenzel's young face and smooth muscles soften Milly's heart; as she liquors up a crew for a wretched guano ship, she decides to save him for herself. But Wenzel refuses the favor and takes his place with his tricked and sodden buddies...
...soften the shock of retirement on employees, Chicago's William Wrigley Jr. Co. will retire its oldsters on an installment plan. Beginning this year, said President James C. Cox, Wrigley workers who reach the retirement age of 65, but are willing and able to keep on working, will get a month's leave of absence without pay the first year, two months the second year, and so on until they are eventually retired altogether...
Senator Brewster, Senator McCarran, and the others who plumped for economic aid to France, insisted that American dollars would soften the Caudillo's heart and make him a valuable ally against Communism, Spain, it was argued, is crucial as a military base and as a source of military power and strategic materials...