Word: softens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position staked out by Ho Chi Minh in a letter to Johnson last February, when he categorically refused to consider talks until the U.S. "unconditionally" halted its bombing of the North and "all other acts of war." Until the 1968 presidential returns are in, Hanoi is unlikely to soften that stand...
...also the first model to have Ford's "energy-absorbing" front end, which, with a specially designed 18-in. section in the car's frame, is supposed to collapse, accordion-style, in a head-on collision, thus soften crash impact...
...magnificent. "Dr. Dexter Perkins" exhibits the photographer as more than a master of the flawless snowscape; it is both artistically and emotionally comprehensible and satisfying. Adams' irritating crispness of vision is relieved in "Woman at Screen Door" by the device of shooting through the screen and using it to soften the subject's face. Otherwise it would be "American Gothic" all over again...
Frei compounded his problems by refusing to compromise or soften his reforms and by pushing his programs with such self-righteous zeal that he often offended even would-be supporters. He started a running feud with the opposition-controlled Senate, which last month even denied him permission to travel to the U.S. on a state visit and allowed him to fly to Punta del Este this week only as a gesture of national pride. It was largely to show the Senate who was boss that Frei put such emphasis on the municipal elections, confident that a popular surge of votes...
Aware that Kennedy's speech would command considerable attention, the Administration took considerable pains to soften its impact. Before Bobby began speaking, Johnson casually dropped the news that Moscow had agreed to talks on "means of limiting the arms race in offensive and defensive nuclear missiles." The U.S., said the President, was anxious to dissuade the Russians from deploying an anti-ballistic missile system that might force Washington to increase drastically its own missile program. Just as Bobby took the floor, the President had a letter delivered to Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson vowing that...