Word: softer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finland, began to attack. Angrily, the Finns said a state of war existed with Germany, sent Foreign Minister Carl Enckell to Moscow to give the Government's answer. At week's end there was no sure sign whether Russia's terms to Finland would be stiffer, softer or about the same as those granted Rumania...
...decided that plastic eyes (material is similar to that used in dental plates) are better than glass eyes anyway. Advantages: 1) they are not breakable-Noles illustrates this by bouncing a plastic eye on the floor, catching it on the rebound without a scratch; 2) the softer plastic is more "sympathetic" than glass to the tissues around the eye; 3) plastic eyes look more natural than glass eyes because they reflect less light; 4) plastic eyes do not explode (glass eyes sometimes do, from changes in temperature); 5) plastic eyes keep their color and stay shiny longer than glass eyes...
...chose "something softer": Embraceable You. When she reached the line "Above all I want my arms about you," the pilot averted his eyes but kept grinning. After she left the ward, she found that he was armless...
Stravinsky's arrangement of a suite by Pergolesi, by contrast retained only the form and melody of the original, progressively adding more and more idiom to each of the eight dances. There was, however, within the movements, considerable alternation between the two styles, the softer and slower passages being nearly pure Porgolesi, the louder and faster passages principally Stravinsky. There were the typical Stravinsky cross-rhythms, two against three, throbbing dissonances in the trombone and basses, mechanically repeated figures for pizzicato strings, and, at the end, circus-style trombone "smears" for satirical effect...
Last fall Henry Morgenthau got enough whacks from the banking community to fracture a softer skull. Over the dead-body opposition of almost all U.S. bankers, the Treasury Secretary insisted on shoving through a $4 billion bond issue of 1½% notes of 1946 and 2% bonds of 1952. The issue barely squeaked through for a total of $4,100,000,000, whereas most issues theretofore had been oversubscribed 50% or more. Even to achieve this the Federal Reserve begged the banks to increase their subscriptions, offered to take over all the banks didn't want. (Subsequently they...