Word: softener
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...Hitler held Europe. With France under his control (see p. 27), he held sway over northwest Africa, had a foothold in the Near East. Peace would be fine for Hitler-peace with the status quo. It would give him time to consolidate his conquests, to build a navy, to soften up new worlds to conquer...
German strategy, Colonel Donovan saw as long ago as last December, would be to try to strangle Britain: to cut off the British Isles' supplies of food and war materials and soften them for the kill. At the same time Germany would try to cut the Empire lifelines. Since it is four times as far from the British Isles to Suez by way of the Cape of Good Hope as it is by way of Gibraltar, Britain would need four times as many ships if the Mediterranean were closed...
...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...