Word: softener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when the Japs bombed the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, they were softening up a way station on the invasion road to Ceylon. And Ceylon, just 60 miles off southern India, is a way to invasion of India itself. It could even be a substitute for invasion. With eastern India bottled up, with ships and planes in position on Ceylon to raid even the Indian routes to the vital ports of Bombay and Karachi on the Arabian Sea, Japan could well let India soften and crumble under blockade...
...dizzy gamut: from a Chicago ribbon counter (Marshall Field & Co.) to a Broadway triumph (Show Boat). The songs she sang as the half-caste Julie in that show never grew stale though she sang them often. Even in the murkiest nightery, no audience was too tough for her to soften with Jerome Kern's Bill and Can't Help Lovin...
Immediate purpose of the President's plan: to help check inflation, by draining off a few more billions from workers' payrolls, cutting consumer purchasing power. A long-range object is to create a $5,000,000,000 Social Security fund to soften the effect of a possible post-war depression. But the ultimate aim is the object which lies near to the heart of the New Deal: to banish individual economic insecurity...
...just read a news item which stated that Mr. Roosevelt was preparing a cushion for little business in order to soften the shock that is coming to all business organizations not engaged in defense work...
...ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer to grimmer, notorious Moabit prison, a Gestapo man told him: "You will sit until you confess. You will soften up. You'll be soft as butter...