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...Force watched each flight proudly-both planes had been ordered east to take part in a big, private air show for Congress this week, calculated to soften the hearts of members who are considering the Air Force Budget...
...series of recent statements and events in the U.S., especially Truman's appointment of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State, led Western Europeans to assume that U.S. policy toward Russia would become softer. The assumption was wispy; nobody knew whether U.S. policy would soften or not. But the European reaction to the assumption was real. Much of the recent stiffness went out of the man-on-the-street's backbone...
...hope that the Reds would soften their high-flying terms by traditional Chinese bargaining methods was expressed by a postman: "It's just like arguing with a ricksha coolie. First he asks for the highest price and then settles for a lower figure." But it was unlikely that the victory-flushed Communists would observe tradition. What was there to dike the flood of Communism if Chiang and the Reds failed to agree on a price...
...growth-every new wharf, every skirmish, every treaty. One night last week, Lloyd's, like a rich aunt with the children home from school, threw open its doors for a party Disraeli would have loved: for 2,400 guests, 2,400 bottles of champagne, and, to soften the glitter of the great marble halls, ?1,400 worth of flowers. The London Evening Standard glowed: "Diamonds, champagne, beautiful women in lovely gowns, men wearing dazzling displays of honors and medals. There is no doubt that last night's party was the most generous since...
...this is indeed true, that man is in the image of God and thereby has a Godly spirit in him; but, on the other hand, man is also an animal, and as such has an animal spirit. These spirits are two antagonists, and yet the one must soften the other...