Word: softest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initiative would not be theirs. When the Allies came, they would almost certainly land at many points, almost certainly make a selection later of the softest spots to develop their thrust inland. Some of the German troops would fight it out on the shore...
Turkey's importance at this stage of the war is geographical. The rugged plateau of Anatolia, insufficiently equipped though it is with roads or railways, is a bridge from the Middle East to one of Europe's softest spots, the Balkans. The islands just off Turkey's southern and southwestern coast are steppingstones for the sea road to an attack on Greece. And in the Middle East, across the bridge and beyond the steppingstones. Allied armies are growing...
...momentary respite from new bombings but not from the aftereffects of earlier raids and the certainty of more to come. Every report from Italy testified to the progressive disintegration of internal morale, the difficulties of defense and to the prospect that beyond the Alps the R.A.F. had found its softest target...
...Armstrong (who made the first jump for science) had said: "[I felt as though I were] lowered slowly into a great bed of softest down." When his eyes were closed, he added, "all sense of motion was lost. . . . The sensation was that of being suspended at rest in mid-air." He had thought "the rush of air past the ears would produce considerable sound, yet none was noted...
South America today is a far different continent from even a year ago, when Hitler's agents regarded it as the world's softest touch. Within another year (estimates vary), the Hemisphere may be immunized against the Nazi infection. For this, Welles should get the major credit, but it is much more likely that he will merely appear, smiling wryly, in the background some day, while the President and others hang medals on one another for saving the Hemisphere...