Word: softener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...historians have ever tried to defend "Bloody Mary." Roman Catholic Historian Hilaire Belloc sought to soften the impeachment by showing how bloody was the age in which she lived and how well-deserving of the same epithet were "Bluff King Hal" (her father) and "Good Queen Bess" (her half sister). But none has succeeded in presenting Mary against the background of her time with quite the acumen and diligence of H. F. M. (for Hilda Frances Margaret) Prescott, a sometime Oxford lecturer and novelist (The Man on a Donkey-TIME. Sept. 22. 1952). First published (under the title Spanish Tudor...
...spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt is made to give him an extra dimension by having him quote from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Karl Maiden, as his easygoing sidekick, tries to soften Widmark's third-degree tactics in close-order drill and simulated combat...
...other planemakers face a new challenge to tax their ingenuity: the thermal barrier. At speeds contemplated for the near future, tough aluminum will lose much of its strength because of friction-generated heat (titanium will replace it for many uses). Cockpit canopies of today's materials will soften like putty; present-day electronic equipment may fail. The U.S. will have its hands full keeping ahead on such problems. Despite the success of the Sabre in Korea, Kindelberger does not underestimate the mechanical ability of the Russians. Says he: "Our conception of the Russian is crazy. We've thought...
...agitated. Asked about the inscribed pistol presented to him by Dulles on behalf of Old Soldier Eisenhower, Old Soldier Naguib displayed it coldly, said, with no interest: "It's just a common pistol." Dulles' first written statement on the canal base had unhappy results. He intended to soften the effect of Churchill's blast, but the Egyptians and their noisy press took his remarks as a blanket endorsement of Churchill's position. Next day he managed to convince Egypt's emerging strong man, Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, that the U.S. is not merely...
Even his appearance contributes to the growing Beer legend. A mustache of heroic proportions soften a pleasantly booming voice. Clothed either in a brown, chalk-striped, business suit, or a black pin-striped number, many think that he looks like an intellectual mob-chief of the twenties...