Word: softeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Galbraith added a paragraph intended to soften the resolution for pro-Johnson supporters. It noted ADA's disagreement on the McCarthy endorsement but reaffirmed the anti-war sentiment of most ADA members...
...Discover America" excursion fares, which offer a 25% discount from regular round-trip coach fares but require passengers to avoid peak traffic times. And the airlines hope that this week's resignation of CAB Chairman Charles Murphy (who will join the White House staff as a consultant) may soften the board's resistance to a small (perhaps 5%) general fare increase for short hauls. The industry's profit problems battered the price of airline stocks last year as institutions unloaded major holdings. From their 1967 highs to last week's close, Eastern Air Lines fell...
...general has doffed his bemedaled uniform for casual mufti in order to soften his military image, has abandoned droning prepared speeches for off-the-cuff talks and has even begun to enjoy the political stump. Recently, he articulately plugged Indonesia's "New Order" on a visit to the island of Sulawesi, where he wowed the natives not only by giving pithy explanations of what his government is trying to do but by donning a sarong and the peaked local headdress. Later this month, he goes off to Bali on a similar speechmaking tour...
France's five Common Market partners-all of whom publicly support British membership-tried unsuccessfully to soften the French position, but they failed. Flying to London for three days of talks with Prime Minister Wilson, West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger offered little solace. "It would be no use banging the table," he said. "Anyone who knows President de Gaulle will understand that this would produce the opposite effect. The only way is to try to convince the French by intellectual arguments, and hope that the overwhelming weight of European public opinion will make them change their...
...Governor has reached a nadir; he is unlikely even to control the entire delegation from his own state. But Romney has been counted out before, only to stage a winning campaign. He seems determined to do so again in the primaries, and is already taking steps to soften the stiff, sanctimonious impression that he too often conveys. "He's sure trying to be one of the fellas," says an aide. "He's even using a lot more hells and damns than he used to." Even so, the newsmen who cover Romney still refer to him as "Super Square...