Word: softest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Psychology is the softest of the sciences Braden uses in coaching. Physics and physiology also play important roles. His lectures are sprinkled with such terms as force vectors and parabolas, as he explains why he recommends certain strokes and movements. "The ball doesn't know if you are hitting forehand or backhand," he says, "or if you're wearing your lucky shorts. It only knows how the racquet meets it. You can't violate the physical laws because Mother Nature will get you every time...
...nearly a decade, Joseph Diego Ramirez, 37, has ranked as one of the softest touches in Princeton, Minn. (est. pop. 3,200). He contributed a reported $10,000 to landscape city hall with new lawns and tropical palms, leased two Volkswagen Rabbits to the police force for $1 a year, lent a local group $500,000, interest free, to help build a hockey arena, and spent another half a million dollars to lengthen the runway of the municipal airport. Then, in a sharp turn of events, Ramirez presented himself two weeks ago at the nearby St. Paul jail in response...
...actors form a flawless ensemble. Hurt, who bears the heaviest weight of words, and Walken, whose character has the softest edges, deserve particular praise. Director Mike Nichols has imposed a shaping dramatic tension on shapeless lives and on a play that is of necessity loosely structured. His uncanny sense of modern body language brilliantly matches Rabe's sensitivity to verbal gestures. Everyone involved in Hurlyburly (including all its designers) have stared hard, long and with compassionate intelligence into the face of contemporary banality, and found ways of transcending it without falsifying. Theirs is an important work, masterly accomplished...
...realm of finance, 1983 may be remembered as the year that competition rumbled through the banking industry and rattled its foundations. To be sure, bankers have long vied with one another to offer customers the shiniest toasters or softest Teddy bears, but they have not had to compete where it counts: in the interest they pay for their basic savings and checking deposits. That situation is now changing. In a move to ease restrictions that had been in force since the Great Depression, federal regulators last month freed banks and savings and loan associations to pay whatever interest they wish...
After a time, the Brewers began to drift, as the hardest and softest losers invariably do, to the other clubhouse to commend the winners. "Step aside men," one of the Cardinal coaches said. "Here comes Mr. Kuenn." Six weeks after the Milwaukee manager had a prosthesis fitted for his right leg, amputated below the knee because of a circulation crisis in 1980, he was already on a golf course, playing, and he is eager to be there again. "After these last three weeks," Kuenn said, "you can scream while I'm putting and I won't mind...