Word: soften
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...most successful interrogation of an Al-Qaeda operative by U.S. officials required no sleep deprivation, no slapping or "walling" and no waterboarding. All it took to soften up Abu Jandal, who had been closer to Osama bin Laden than any other terrorist ever captured, was a handful of sugar-free cookies...
...tradable carbon credits, 15% would be auctioned off, the rest donated to businesses like cement and steel plants to soften the bill's economic impact...
...handlers were using the J. Crew twin sets and Donna Reed hair to reassure white voters that "she's just like you." Under the liberal magnifying glass, Michelle was suddenly a victim, forced by her husband's ambitions and society's expectations to tone it down, soften it up, step back. "How will Michelle Obama feel as she becomes what she has long resisted - an extension of her husband?" asked Rebecca Traister in a Salon article called "The Momification of Michelle Obama." She was giving up her job, her $212,000-a-year salary and her independence, which prompted...
...thing that might help soften that world view, she believes, is if the obstetricians try to see things from the midwives' perspective. "The U.S. has a limited idea of what it means to have a positive outcome at the end of a delivery," she says. "Basically it just means that everyone's alive. But when you don't have a lot of medical intervention, you also tend to have more breast-feeding and reduced rates of postpartum depression." Cheyney acknowledges that the kinds of mothers who choose midwifery might be the very kinds who would be less inclined to suffer...
...societies with the eye of a learned and interested observer at a moment in history that would be the envy of any travel writer to-day. If the film does nothing but intrigue the viewers to become more acquainted with this astonishing story, it will have served to soften the supposed “clash of civilizations”. It will also have earned the sponsorship of the National Geographic. Indeed, given all the attention lavished on the magnificent photography, the deserts, the ancient cities, the caravans, (and even bandits) it is a weakness of the film that the remarkable...