Word: softened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiralty announced that three U-boats had been sunk in a single day, two of them of large ocean-going type. This news preceded by only a few hours and helped to soften-perhaps designedly -the disclosure of the loss of Royal Oak. Paris announced that allied attacks so far had sunk at least 17 submarines, perhaps several more...
...implication has frowned upon Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of "appeasing" Fascism. Instead of being told that they should revamp their views to fit Washington's, they persuaded the President to leave foreign policy out of his Chapel Hill speech (TIME, Dec. 12), and further to soften his democratic dander last week...
...turned a deaf ear to the throaty gurgles of Guardian editors catching their first sight of hard cash in over a year and lapsed again into reverie, permitting a mental tear to soften his brain. Oh, to be a Freshman one more. To have four years of certain free summers ahead. To be free from having to think of something to be. Vag experienced slight nausea at his own nostalgia, and his thoughts swung to what courses he might sit in on this year. There was always Merriman's first lecture, a phenomenon in itself. There would be Holcombe...
Both agreed that working newspapermen must organize, but that agreement did not soften Mr. Robb's criticism of the Guild's "cockeyed"' tactics. He warned the Guild it was making "slow progress" because: 1) it "gives more thought to antagonizing publishers than it doe.s toward promotion of the objects for which it was formed"; 2) it "attempts to discredit all advertising" and boycotts circulation of struck papers; 3) its Guild shop makes "the possession of a Guild card the prime requisite to a man's right to work on a newspaper-more important than character...
Success did not come till four years later, when his Reisebilder (Pictures of Travel) appeared, a bookful of prose sketches and verses on the German scene. Fame did nothing to soften his contrariety. An increasing bitterness crept into his writings; his attacks on German bigwigs, literary and political, grew sharper and more open. A subsequent volume brought denunciations, threats of libel suits. The next was proscribed throughout Germany. Heine, one jump ahead of the police, fled to Paris...