Word: softener
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...much ideas as their loudmouthed idiot cousin -publicity-that helped soften the verdict. It began to seem that it was not Abbott and his admitted homicide that were on trial but, in a vague and sloppy way, the entire American criminal justice system. The jury decided that the system had just been too much for Abbott. So the verdict was manslaughter. Abbott had been acting, the jury decided, under "extreme emotional disturbance." Sentencing comes next month. A judge of Solomonic gifts might condemn Abbott and Mailer to be shackled together with molybdenum chains, inseparable ever after, like Tony Curtis...
...become convinced of the need for new taxes. But Reagan's stubbornness on this point was evident at his press conference, where he repeated what he has been saying in private meetings. "I have no plans for increasing taxes in any way," he insisted. Spokesmen subsequently tried to soften that stance by saying that Reagan had not meant to rule out "revenue enhancements," the White House euphemism for $22 billion worth of ill-defined loophole-tightening proposed by the President in September...
...Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, said yesterday that if this home rule bill passes, "it is assured to go through city council." If the Senate or the Governor blocks its passage, there are several other home rule petitions before the Massachusetts government which would help Cambridge to soften the effects of 2 1/2, she added...
...coach at Howard University in Washington, D.C., who ran the Model Cities program in San Diego from 1972 to 1975 before becoming head of the local chapter of the National Urban League. Pendleton campaigned for Reagan last year, and though he promises to try to block any effort to soften the Voting Rights Act, he shares Reagan's opposition to busing and affirmative action-policies staunchly supported by the commission...
...midweek the Israeli position seemed to soften. Emerging from a 90-min. meeting with Secretary of State Haig, Moshe Arens, leader of a parliamentary delegation sent to Washington by Prime Minister Menachem Begin to talk about rising Israeli concerns, had some unexpectedly encouraging words about the Fahd plan. Arens declared that the Saudis had gone "a little way beyond the kind of statements they have made in the past." Coming from an Israeli hardliner, a close Begin associate and Israel's next Ambassador to Washington, that remark stirred speculation that the Israelis might consider at least some...