Word: softens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement puts the U.S. and Russia in league against De Gaulle and his ambitions, thereby further straining the NATO alliance. But Washington argues that De Gaulle cannot grow much more anti-NATO than he is already, and hopes, further, that le grand Charles, after swallowing his initial annoyance, may soften his stand for fear of being isolated...
...found it all just too exhilarating. It was a compliment to his vast powers of persuasion that Mrs. McLean and the others never took into account his reputation; he could soften any skeptic merely by producing freshly embroidered lies with which he smothered older embroidered lies...
...than his coat-sleeve can suddenly fall into a new seat of folds.... We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, . . . for in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster and will never soften again...
...golden year showed up on the paychecks too. General Motors Chairman Frederic Garrett Donner, 60, set an alltime automotive industry record in 1962 by earning $791,475-$201,475 in salary and directors' fees, a cash bonus of $442,500 to be collected over five years to soften the tax pinch, and $147,500 in "contingent credit"-the bonus value of G.M. stock options he was granted for 1962. The mathematics might seem a little complicated to anyone less skilled in figures than Donner, but G.M. had a tax-conscious explanation: Donner theoretically would have only $109,410 left...
...develop the picture, an electric current is shot through the film for one hundredth of a second. This jolt of juice generates just enough heat to soften the plastic. The electric charges are able to squeeze closer together, dimpling the softened material, which instantly cools and solidifies. The result is a pattern of varying thickness that matches the pattern of light and darkness that made up the original image on the film...