Word: softener
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...current Summer Session none is more unjustified or dictatorial than the new policy of requiring every man who buys a participation fee to rent a locker. The decision was taken by the H. A. A. without consulting the Student Council and was then cleverly disguised in order to soften the blow. Nowhere on the card was the compulsory rental made clear; it was left to the student to figure it out all by himself...
...claims to see in himself. One of the kinder things people have said was that he was an able but harmless fellow afflicted by delusions of grandeur. Others, with more calumny, have said that he was the Axis super-agent for the Western Hemisphere, told off to: 1) soften up Latin America for the Axis; 2) harden it up against North America...
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...