Word: softener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physique of the U. S. is changing immeasurably. By the time the job is only half done, the country will already be a different country. The people are aware that change is afoot, but only half aware of the bigness, the imminence of that change. Waiting for spring to soften the February air, they scarcely realize that summer skies will be darkened .by something more ominous than clouds-by fleets of airplanes, on their way to help England, if the Isles still stand; on their way to U. S. airfields, whether Britain stands or falls...
...loss of Tom Lacey and Vern Miller through injuries, the matmen were further handicapped by the default of Jim Redmon, through failure to make weight. Since these were the classes in which Penn was weakest, the Crimson was thus deprived of three good chances at least to soften the defeat...
What happened next depended on the stiffness of the Marshal's spine. He sent his new No. 2 man, Admiral Jean Darlan, to Paris to try to soften Hitler's demands. The Admiral had no sooner arrived than he stated flatly: "I affirm that the French Fleet is absolutely and will remain under complete French jurisdiction and that it will defend the Empire against any challenge whatsoever." But Admiral Darlan had authority to agree to Laval's reinstatement provided Marshal Pétain retained supreme power...
...Attorney General Jackson warned that totalitarian powers were trying "to soften this country as France was softened" by promises of business orders and profits...
...range (24,900 Ib. fully loaded) is the sleek, two-engined Heinkel He. in K which carries a crew of four, makes bombing a highly coordinated job for two men, the pilot and the bombardier. These, with other types (Dornier, Junkers, etc.), were the ships that were trying to soften up Britain with intensified raids all last week (see above). A Heinkel He. in K is pictured on the opposite page during a hypothetical attack on the vital Thames Estuary and London docks...