Word: softener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Knowland had selected the three Republicans on the censure committee, he was doing nothing whatever to support their recommendations. Instead, he was helping those Senators who wanted to soften the censure resolution. This group included most of the other Republicans who hold official leadership positions in the Senate. Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, was the chief strategist in the move to soften censure, and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, president pro tempore, stood shoulder to shoulder with Dirksen; Michigan's Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Policy Committee, and Massachusetts...
...neither the Gogs of Philadelphia nor Magogs of Pittsburgh. Clark and Dilworth admired Leader's liberal views; Boss Green decided he had discovered Leader; Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence, who is also Democratic national committeeman, found him politically impeccable. Farmer Leader seemed an excellent choice to soften up the farm vote for a Democratic sweep in 1958. Thus, almost by default, George Leader was picked as a candidate. Everyone settled back with the complacent expectation that Leader would lose-everyone, that is, but the candidate...
Members of the faculty last night opposed any move to soften censure charges against Senator McCarthy because it would hurt the Senate's national prestige and give the McCarthy issue unfortunate political overtones...
...Persuade the National Assembly, a sizable majority of which opposed Germany's rearmament, to vote 350 to 113 in favor of the principle of rearming West Germany and admitting it to NATO. ¶ Soften the big Socialist Party (105 Assembly seats) for an almost certain switch from hostile noncooperation to participation in the Mendes government. ¶ Win from fading Charles de Gaulle the promise that his followers will soon be freed to support Mendes and his program for France...
...effort to soften the effect of the motion, Secretary Humphrey Fisher '55 offered an amendment explicitly stating that the H.L.U: would retain its independent authority and freedom of action in campus affairs. But after nearly two hours of debate, the membership over-rode the amendment and went on to vote down the original motion by a 16 to 11 margin...