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...point loss to Indiana. He is a straight talker, given to sometimes bitter post-game oratory. After his eighth loss, to Wisconsin (52-0), Green angered longer-sufferers when he said: "I'm embarrassed to have my name associated with North western University." In a much softer voice, he said, "We're not used to playing hard enough at Northwestern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Interstate 94, Northwestern 0 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...possible that there may be a resolution with the same wording as last year. But it is my impression that the tempo of the debate on this question may be changing, and the wording may be not as tough against Afghanistan. I think it may be much softer and more flexible. After all, all countries have to submit to the realities in Afghanistan and around us. The principal reality is that there has been a revolution here, there is a government with power and control over the whole country, and there is a party working for the welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices of an Embattled Regime | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Coco Trumbull and Rusti Baker led the Crimson attack. Baker unleashed a barrage of spikes with such power that the amazed Terriers could do nothing but watch them land. Trumbull's scores were softer but better controlled. Both appeared in high spirits throughout the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improving Spikers Trounce B.U., 3-0 | 10/21/1981 | See Source »

Maybe so, but Jovan and some 30 other companies have something they hope will beat Dial, Zest, Dove and other bar soaps at the sinks of American homes. It is liquid soap, a softer, creamier and better-smelling version of the soap that has been used for decades in public restrooms. Sales of liquid hand soap, in pump-dispenser plastic bottles, have grown from practically nothing two years ago to an estimated $100 million this year, and the new products have now captured about 10% of the total bar soap market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soft Sell | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...following postcard: "Putney, 25 May 1977: hot weather, swimming weather, deer fly weather. Finished Lunacy and Sorrow this a.m. . . . Novel is 531 pages long, has all the ingredients of an Xrated soap opera; I hope it will cause a few smiles among the tough-minded and break a few softer hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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