Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the balcony, loudspeakers blared out anti-Balaguer and anti-Rodriguez slogans as four light tanks drew up before the building. Soldiers climbed a ladder to cut off the loudspeakers. A car drove up, and Rafael Bonnelly, the mild-looking lawyer and U.C.N. leader who was scheduled to succeed Balaguer as President, stepped out to protest. "Without warning," says a witness, "gunners on top of the tanks opened fire point-blank at the people." Soldiers pointed their guns at Bonnelly and shouted to their commanding officer to "get out of the way so we can shoot!" Bonnelly's aides...
...States Inter-American Peace Committee. The committee accused Cuba of converting itself into a Red satellite, of attempting to subvert its neighbors, of violating human rights by executing and imprisoning political dissenters. It would be a hard report to ignore for those Latin American nations which want only a mild reproof for Cuba and no sanctions...
Jungle Screams. Although no other paper felt quite so strongly, few but Thomson's Sunday Times, which had Tony in the bag, could resist sounding off. The London Daily Sketch puckered with a mild case of sour grapes: "Lord Snowdon sharpens his artistic genius for readers of the Sunday Times." Cassandra (William Connor), London Daily Mirror columnist, was moved by amusement: "Now Tony Snowdon, as the Observer calls him [to Cassandra, Tony was 'a royal Dicky-bird'], has flown from Kensington Palace to the jungle that is Fleet Street. In a trice, the macaws, the parrots...
Amid the general chorus of disapproval (including the charge that Thomson wanted to use Tony to land a peerage), a few mild voices rose: "The Mirror hopes Mr. Jones will stick to his job." If he didn't, added the Mirror slyly, Tony was more than welcome on the Mirror's staff-"at considerably less money...
...contamination by sewage), cholera has been spreading throughout southeast Asia from Red China since last summer. An epidemic reached the Philippines last September. Elpidio Valencia, then Health Secretary, correctly identified it as "choleriform enteritis caused by a vibrio (bacillus) called El Tor," which he less soundly defined as a "mild" form of cholera. A presidential campaign was in progress, and the regime of President Carlos P. Garcia was anxious to downplay any threat to the nation's health...