Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a very difficult one." Summitry: Inevitably, the talk about possible breakthroughs led toward proposals for person-to-person conversations at the summit. Nikita Khrushchev was already insisting that the Geneva disarmament meeting be turned into a summit session. The U.S. and Britain last week sent mild refusals, saying in effect: not until the delegates to the Geneva conference can report some evidence of progress toward a disarmament agreement...
There was only one trouble: Fouchet's own boss, Charles de Gaulle, jealously husbanding France's sovereignty, was dead against the whole idea of supranationalism in any form. He rejected even his own French officials' first mild draft. In its place last month came a substitute French proposal ordered by le grand Charles, which even seemed to kill the long-accepted supranational economic control built into the Common Market. More than that, France's new draft suggested a European defense structure that made no provision whatever for liaison with or membership in the NATO system...
...they reduced the glass facade of the U.S. embassy to a saw-toothed shambles, smashed eight embassy autos, stamped a U.S. flag into the gutter and injured an American woman. Ambassador Howard Palfrey Jones lodged a formal protest and demanded $5,000 in damages. In return, he got a mild expression of regret and a gratuitous lecture from Foreign Minister Subandrio to the effect that "the anger and the irritation of the Indonesian people" were perfectly understandable...
...opinion as expressed through the SGA. The importance, if any, of the constitutional change lies in the fact that a massive transformation of the college (such as President Bunting's house system is likely to prove) may, if it moves too quickly, and is not quite understood, engender a mild form of anomie in the student community. At the moment, an essentially conservative bunch of students could use the benefits of direct confrontation with a strong Administration before the bureaucratic wheels begin to roll...
...Soviet postwar relations have gone through cycles of freeze and mild thaw-but the Kennedy Administration has experienced mainly cold weather. When Kennedy first took office, he naively conveyed a request for a six-month moratorium on Communist crisis stirring while his Administration got its house in order...