Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even mild Mike Mansfield, the Senate majority leader, was running out of patience. "We are witnessing a travesty on the legislative process," he snapped. "The majority is being told what it can and cannot do." The anger stemmed from what the bill's supporters considered a broken pledge by the Southern leader, Georgia Democrat Richard Russell. They claimed he had promised to permit votes on more amendments this week. But after a Southern caucus, Russell declared there would be none. In retaliation, Senate leaders announced that the Senate's working hours would be stretched to midnight. "That doesn...
Greece and Turkey came to hurl acrimonious charges and countercharges about the Cyprus conflict, finally agreed to a mild compromise by which NATO's outgoing Secretary-General Dirk Stikker was asked to lend a hand in ending the dispute...
...sales, not consumption, and any market researcher can tell them who buys what, when and where. The latest survey of book-buying habits, printed in Publishers' Weekly and based on interviews in New York, Washington and San Francisco, confirms some old publishing assumptions and springs a few mild surprises. Among the findings...
...York Republican Frank J. Becker, author of an amendment approving voluntary school prayers. Becker claimed 167 signatures on a discharge petition, only 51 short of the number required to get his proposal out of committee and onto the House floor. But opposition was stiffening for one compelling reason: even mild tinkering with the First Amendment is dubious business. Said the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church: "I take alarm at this experiment with our liberties. The Bill of Rights should remain unamended, for the rights are inalienable...
...Steel Chairman Roger Blough is a hard man to get a rise out of. Through John Kennedy's attack on steel, through price-fixing squabbles with the Government and sniping from stockholders and legislators, Blough has steadfastly stuck to the mild manner, bland words and faint smile that have become his trademarks. At his meetings with the press, he gives only perfunctory answers, usually volunteers nothing. Almost everyone was surprised, therefore, when Blough dropped his usual reticence last week at his quarterly press conference and delivered a firm defense of the steel industry's pricing policies. It came...