Word: mild
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the workers finally withdrew, pending negotiations, a graver incident occurred. Mild, retiring U.S. Vice Consul William M. Olive, who had left the consulate before the siege began, got stuck in his car amid the parading mob; he waited for two hours, then was arrested for traffic violations and obstructing the parade. The Communist cops did not allow U.S. officials to see him in jail. Sixty-six hours later he was released-after, as the Reds put it, "being given sincere and serious education by the police...
Last week, mild-mannered Jules Feldmans, carrying his credentials as charge d'affaires (a lower rank since he had not been appointed by a government), was given the full and formal State Department protocol treatment in Washington. He was warmly received by Secretary of State Acheson. For six minutes, lounging in a leather armchair, Feldmans told of the plight of 80,000 Latvian D.P.s who would like to come to the U.S. The State Department put Feldmans' name on the official list of diplomats. Mr. Feldmans did not call on the President, but it was announced unofficially that...
Tsaldaris' candidate for Minister of Physical Culture declined the post. Then several minor parties proposed another coalition under a mild Byzantine scholar, nonpartisan Deputy Premier Alexander Diomedes. Tsaldaris insisted on an all-Populist cabinet with himself as Premier and for a while it looked as though he would have his way. One evening last week, all the cabinet candidates, immaculate in grey ties and white shirts, were assembled in Tsaldaris' living room, drinking Turkish coffee and waiting for a phone call from the King to summon them to the swearing-in ceremony...
...University of Illinois' James Garfield Randall, 68, most scholarly of the Lincoln biographers (Lincoln and the South; Lincoln the Liberal Statesman), a mild and modest man who could usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...
...historian's mind. Dilliard is an expert on the U.S. Supreme Court, a pen-pal of several justices, a contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography. The P-D distributed 70,000 reprints of his "news dispatches" (datelined Philadelphia, 1787) on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Mild-mannered Irving Dilliard can also write hard-hitting editorials. He wrote the celebrated "contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many of the Centralia editorials, was mainly responsible for the P-D campaign to smash the corrupt Illinois machine of Governor Dwight Green. Under Dilliard, the page might not be as lively...