Word: softening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody knew that the Lord was supposed to soften the heart of John Downey Cooper Jr., 69, owner and son of a founder of the Harriet-Henderson mills. Long regarded with paternal affection by his employees, old "John D." unexpectedly scuttled the key compulsory-arbitration clause of a 14-year-old contract a year ago. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers (who made no counter demands) were convinced that they were up against old-fashioned union-busting in a state where their toe hold was all too shaky. Reluctantly, they pulled 1,000 workers from the mill in a strike that...
...goes well, the fuel burns evenly, acts as an insulator to protect the vulnerable metal casing from the searing heat of its flame. As the fuel is consumed, the cavity becomes nearly cylindrical, so when the flame reaches the outside wall not enough fuel is left to soften the metal. A well-made solid-fuel rocket engine can be touched with bare fingers just after firing on the test stand...
...Anderson found a sympathetic listener in Under Secretary (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon, longtime international banker both on Wall Street and in Government and a firm believer in the imperatives of a sound world economic policy. Gradually the President's statements on foreign aid began to soften. By last September, Anderson could bluntly tell the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington: "There must be a reorientation of the policies of the earlier postwar period...
Some Christians and skeptics alike believe that sects which soften the old-fashioned hell are running a considerable risk. Fear of the eternal fire, they hold, helps to make people behave. Last week the powerful United Church of Canada, a union of Canada's Methodists, Congregationalists and some Presbyterians, seemed willing to take this chance. Its Committee on Christian Faith published a booklet, Life and Death, that repudiates the fire and brimstone of the traditionalists' Hell...
...package to 22? over the life of the contract, ranged from three-week vacations after twelve years (v. 15) to establishment of a $500,000 fund through company contributions to help retrain and relocate workers who lose their jobs through automation. Regarded as a milestone in industrial attempts to soften the impact of work-saving machines on employment, the fund will be operated by a joint management-labor committee with an impartial outsider as chairman. Other packers, such as Oscar Mayer, Cudahy and Hygrade, fell in behind Armour, but Swift and Wilson held out. Swift agreed to the wage raises...