Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since April 1962, no less than 700 mild earthquakes have been recorded in the area around Denver. The tremors have done practically no damage, but in a part of the country that knew no quakes at all for 80 years before the current flurry, Denver's citizens were understandably concerned. What was causing the trouble? Would the quakes get worse...
...Lawrence's denunciation of England's industrial aristocracy. Three of the plays, echoing his autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers, are concerned with poor middle-of-England mining families in which domineering mothers are locked in love-hate relationships with brutish husbands or acquiescent sons. Two plays are mild-mannered comedies in which Lawrence woodenly twits denatured civilization and desexualized man. There is even one play, based on the Biblical David, which fuzzily explores Lawrence's pseudoreligious cult of the demi-divine ruler...
...second time in seven months that the Los Angeles slum had erupted in anarchy. Though last week's rioting in Watts appeared almost mild compared with the six-day wave of savagery that left 35 dead, 1,032 injured and more than $40 million in property damage last August, the latest uprising showed that little has happened since in the Negro suburb to defuse a lethal psychosis fed by race hatred, deprivation and contempt...
FRAP was obviously working along the guidelines of the recent Tri-Continental Conference in Havana, which recommended stepped-up labor trouble as a means to Red takeover. Since January, strikes in the Chilean copper mines have cost Frei's government $60 million, and the mild-mannered President got tough. Going before the nation on radio and television, he angrily declared that FRAP was out to "economically paralyze the nation. We are witnessing a premeditated act of subversion...
With the soft voice and deliberate mannerisms peculiar to Southern politicians, Terry Sanford blends a mild demeanor with the high-powered drive that made his administration the symbol of a progressive movement in the South...