Word: softener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...timed pamphlet setting forth its attitude toward Western European integration (see below), the British Labor Party had gone far beyond the understandable, if disappointing, caution which the British government had so far displayed toward the Schuman Plan. Despite all of Prime Minister Clement Attlee's subsequent attempts to soften the blow, the Labor Party had finally, bluntly admitted what it had long suggested by its actions: it was dead set against any scheme of European union that was 1) not controlled by Socialists, 2) involved a sacrifice of national sovereignty, i.e., the national Socialist's sovereign right...
Watered Down. His anxiety was well founded. When the groggy debaters were shut off at 2:30 a.m., the Southerners began the final phase of their strategy: to soften the McConnell substitute bill even further with weakening amendments and then to vote for it. In the final showdown at the end of 15 hours they triumphed; the next morning the House perfunctorily approved the McConnell bill, 240 to 177. FEPC had been deprived of its teeth; if the bill became law (it seemed more probable that it would die in the Senate), it could be enforced only by mediation, conciliation...
...portrait of the proprietor hangs on a wall flanking the lobby elevator doors; framed there, with folded arms, tumbled hair and an expression reminiscent of both Maxie Rosenbloom and Barrymore's Hamlet, he stares austerely at all who enter. The portrait's eyes are said to soften slightly when McCarthy confronts it in the flesh...