Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Equation. But when his chance to run for the Senate came in 1958, he was reluctant to take it. The U.S. was in the midst of a mild recession, and it looked like a big Democratic year. He entered the race a distinct underdog against Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan. He was helped by the usual factional row between New York's Democratic bosses and reformers, and he made devastating use of Jim Farley's scornful remark that Hogan's experience in national and international affairs "extends from the Battery to the Polo Grounds." In an upset victory, Keating squeaked...
From Rugby to Royalties. Moral Re-Armer Howard could hardly be more unlike Buchman, who was a mild-mannered rural pastor and Y.M.C.A. worker until he founded the Oxford Group. M.R.A.'s predecessor. Lean, trim and handsome at 56, Howard was in his day one of Oxford's athletic greats, eight times a star on Britain's international rugby team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model...
...Long Memos. Burnham is a rangy, mild-mannered mechanical engineer who seriously insists to his employees that he wants "work to be fun" -and sets something of an example by putting in an 8:30-to-6 day, rarely taking work home at night or on weekends. But he knows how to wield both the ax and the scepter-and he has found enough time in ordinary work days to wield both so well that the once-slumbering Westinghouse has leaped to life. When he took over after the resignation of the late Mark Cresap, says Burnham, "I didn...
...freshman, so highly motivated, so industrious in his pre-college years, assumes listless habits of dress, spends an inordinate amount of time in activities best described as "frittering," and suffers from mild abulia (a psychological disorder characterized by loss of will power...
...assistant professor, taught a popular course in early Christianity, but wrote nothing. On mild days, he habitually shepherded his class to a small mountain for his lecture...