Word: softer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known that if Prime Minister Attlee forced the issue they would not vote to censure the Foreign Secretary. Socialist Attlee, as much a part of the British tradition as any Clarenceux King-of-Arms, promptly forced the issue-on an amendment sponsored by 58 Laborites who wanted a "softer" British foreign policy. When Attlee made the vote a question of confidence in the Government, none of the 58 voted for the amendment and it was beaten...
...Annenberg's richer Inquirer (circ. 600,000) had countered Guild demands with an offer identical to Stern's, but so far had been left alone. To Guild members, who might also be baffled by the discrimination, the Guild frankly admitted that it considered Stern the softer touch...
...TIME's Chicago staff henceforth interview Whodunit Authors under softer lights than those in city rooms and county jails...
...than on any other people in Europe, the Gemütlichkeit was riddled by flashes of bitterness. Usually broadminded, the Viennese grew jealous, called girls who fraternized with the chocolate-bearing G.I.s "chocoladies." The sprinkling (5%) of combat veterans among U.S. troops called the Austrians just plain Krauts, only softer...
...audience of 1,200 soldiers and natives who gathered last week inside the crumbling walls settled back to listen to Beethoven's Third (Eroica) Symphony. Occasionally during the softer passages, a siren wailed or a bulldozer could be heard working away at Manila's rubble. Beads of perspiration tipped Dr. Zipper's sharp nose. In the first row sat Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, in a pink cotton frock.. Also present was the Symphony's president, Mrs. Benito Legarda, a handsome Philippine woman who hid the Society's instruments and scores from the Japs...