Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strings were applied to Powell on a voice vote that brought nary a nay. Roosevelt then rose to add: "In view of the action just taken by the House, there does not seem to be much point in continuing this particular discussion." He merely inserted in the record a mild defense of the Education and Labor Committee, of which he is a member. Neither he nor anyone else in the House had a kind word for Powell...
...divorced from his wife, Philby returned to newspapering; seven years ago he went to the Middle East for the Economist and the Observer and married his third wife, Eleanor, whose former husband is Sam Pope Brewer, once the New York Times's Middle East correspondent. Shy and mild-mannered, Philby sometimes drank heavily, last Christmas took a tipsy fall, gashing his head so badly that 24 stitches were needed to close the wound...
Seven NATO partners-Britain, Belgium, Italy, Greece, The Netherlands, Turkey, West Germany-were immediately receptive to Merchant's proposal. West Germany expressed the warmest interest; the British looked on the scheme with "mild benevolence." But all seven wanted to hear more about it, and allowed that the price was high and the payoff distant. Meanwhile, all but a fraction of the existing Western atomic stockpile would remain under U.S. lock and key. The proposal was coldly received in France, where the Gaullist daily La Nation even dubbed the prospect of a multilateral force "la farce multilatérale...
Adverse reaction to the budget was surprisingly mild. Some businessmen protested that Desai could have eased the tax burden by slashing unnecessary government expenditures; others pointed out that India might have been spared the crushing new taxes if the government had spent enough money in the past to have made a more creditable showing against the Chinese. Grumbled one: "This is a high price to pay for Ladakh-even assuming we do get it back." But most Indians closed ranks behind Desai. Said one government official: "The budget is the clearest answer yet given by an Asian democracy to Communist...
...first, second, or third seedings even though B.C. was scheduled to play both Clarkson and St. Lawrence within 48 hours of the committee's placement decisions. When the top-seeded Eagles were thumped first by Clarkson (4-2) and then by fourth-seeded St. Lawrence (5-1), mild complaints gave way to vocal criticisms...