Word: softer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staunch Tory, Sir Alec can always be counted on for sharp criticism of Labour's nationalization proposals and for somewhat softer attacks on its planning ideas--for the Tories have their plans too. As a former Foreign Minister Sir Alec has made foreign and defense policy his chief issue. He promises to retain an independent nuclear deterrent, even if it is only the U.S.'s Polaris submarines. And he would dearly like to bring about some kind of rapprochement between Russia and the United States, like the one that helped Macmillan so much in 1959. But popularity polls show little...
Alas, could not the Radcliffe Choral Society scare up a healthier sounding soprano section? Not one strong voice was to be heard among the sopranos. It was impossible to decide whether they should sing louder, so they could be heard properly, or softer, so their wrong notes would disappear. One reason the modern pieces on the program sounded better was that their sopranos parts were not as difficult...
...cold war will never be the same again." The change was formalized in the nuclear test ban, and in a cover story on Negotiator Averell Harriman, we pointed out that "Western Europe's postwar order" had been based on "antiCommunism as an article of faith"; given a softer image of Communism and diminished fear of nuclear war, the Western alliance was bound to grow less firm...
...these spirited short stories, Sillitoe's characters command a rich dialect in which the underdog facetiousness blurs but does not hide wary resentment or cynical despair. In their softer moments, they would like to live like their betters-ride bikes, wear cloth caps, eat fish and chips, play the football pools, and watch the telly on a paid-up set. For those simple pleasures of the poor, sex and the bottle, they have the same words: they "have a bash...
...working language of the OAS meetings was Spanish, their version was correct, and suggested that U.S. Envoy Martin, who does not speak Spanish, was confused. At first, the diplomats considered using the word discutir. But a Spanish-language purist objected that discutir implied argumentative discussion. Thus negociar, a softer word that means both discuss and negotiate, was substituted. Unconfused, Ed Martin at no time committed the U.S. to formal negotiations. He did, however, make a special point not to rule out treaty changes coming out of the discussions...