Word: softens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiercely anti-Khrushchev rulers said all the nasty things about Moscow that the Chinese obviously wanted to say themselves. Since Nikita Khrushchev's ouster amid signs of a Russian-Chinese thaw, the Communist world-and its observers in the West-have wondered whether the Albanian line might soften. Last week came the answer...
Waiting for Noah. The surcharge on their exports was a jolting setback for the Commonwealth nations and Britain's trading partners in E.F.T.A., Europe's Outer Seven: yet the Prime Minister made no attempt to soften the blow by consulting them in advance...
...said the U.N. had been partly responsible for "an abatement of the Cold War in recent years. The emergence of nonaligned nations has helped servo as a bridge. The presence of a group uncommitted to a belief in the superiority of either economic system has served to soften debate...
...force had dropped by 12,000 to 92,100. Boeing was undergoing an agony that afflicts many U.S. corporations in a day of selective defense cutbacks: the necessity of finding something to fill that aching void. The agony is still acute at Boeing, but the company has helped to soften some of it with a recent flurry of activity and determined planning for the future...
...rebels' revolt struck a sympathetic chord among many Malawans who revere the Lion but wish he would soften his autocratic ways. Nevertheless, bustling little Prime Minister Banda was still hale and hearty last week and so confident of winning that he refused to attend a peace conference with the rebels arranged by the British Governor General...