Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bustamante had a plan to improve matters, he was keeping it to himself. But he obviously sees a large role for the U.S., whose tourists already bring $38 million a year to Jamaica. While Manley had conducted a mild flirtation with the Soviet bloc, Busta was now looking steadfastly West. "There will be no neutrality from this day on," he announced. "I will go to the U.S. shortly to make a mutual defense treaty." As an afterthought, the Chief delightedly noted: "The Kremlin has not sent congratulations to me-and they damn well wouldn...
Algiers has lived so intimately with violence that well-dressed women are accustomed to step daintily over the bodies of murdered Moslems with scarcely more than mild distaste. But the slaughter in the Rue d'Isly seemed unbelievable-for the dead this time were French middle-class civilians, shot down by French soldiers. Votive candles flickered where the demonstrators had fallen. A bloodstained raincoat and a pair of women's shoes were placed at the foot of a tree, flanked by bouquets of red carnations and white daisies. Bitterness remained: a hand-lettered sign read, "The real assassin...
...have suffered too much and too long. I would like not to feel for a while." Fitzgerald died in 1940 of a heart attack, at the age of 44. Of his last years, Turnbull says: "Fitzgerald seemed like some mild-mannered clerk-sweet, gentle, amiable, but devoid of temperament or bite, as if he had been erased...
...Palais des Expositions, glittering new MG, Alfa Romeo and Mercedes models had been assembled for the city's annual automobile exhibition. There was only mild competition from the diplomats meeting in that hall of doom, the League of Nations' old Palais, for last week's 17-nation disarmament conference. The West at least went out of its way to offer new accessories, but the Russian delegates had scarcely bothered to touch up their old, familiar model...
...York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (admission free) houses far fleshier work. Some of Eros' articles are cribbed from history: De Maupassant's Madame Tellier's Brothel, which first wowed Parisians in 1881; poems by the Earl of Rochester (d. 1680), their mild eroticism heavily disguised in battered olde type. Votaries of contemporary vulgarity got their kicks mainly in the titles of Eros' assortment of original stuff. An article on "Erotomania," for example, turned out to be a scholarly study of lovesickness by Psychologist Theodor (Listening with the Third Ear) Reik...