Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Engineers' President Ronald Brown: "I would like to believe the President would not knowingly make the rights and equities of any group of working men pawns in his struggle with the business community." But the stakes were not nearly the same, and Kennedy showed it by his relatively mild tones. Thus the big question remains unanswered...
...Communist Excuse. For the regime, it was the gravest political threat since the Civil War. but the government's first reaction was mild. For weeks, no action at all was taken. Then a state of emergency was declared in the three provinces most affected; 4.000 fresh troops and militiamen were sent in to reinforce the local authorities. But the cops were careful to avoid excessive trouble. Avoiding a showdown. Franco sent a trusted Cabinet aide, burly Sindicatos Boss Jose Solis Ruiz, to the region to calm the striking workers. It worked, but only after Solis talked himself hoarse...
...goes in for none of the spikes-high, chop-up-the-baseman kind of slide that marked Ty Cobb's style (Cobb once received 13 threatening letters from angry fans after slashing Philadelphia's famed "Home Run" Baker). In his major league career, the mild-mannered Wills has never hurt an opposing player...
...democratic center. Some of Betancourt's angriest opposition comes from the Communists and far left that he long ago abandoned, and there are powerful leftist elements within the armed forces. His support comes from the country at large and from the bulk of the military, which prefers his mild welfare statism to Communist upheaval...
...After eleven years of one-man rule by irascible Clarence (Clancy) Sayen, the 14,000-member Air Line Pilots Association chose a new president: mild-mannered Charles Homer Ruby, 52. Backed by retiring President Sayen as a way of freezing out his arch-opponent, ALPA First Vice President John Carroll, Ruby is a onetime mechanic who has logged 20,000 flying hours in everything from chugging J-1s to jet-powered DC-8s, ranks No. 2 on National Airlines' seniority list. He inherits a Sayen-created impasse. The convention that elected Ruby also voted to continue the two-year...