Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization. Other unions boast lavish headquarters in Hoffa Hacienda style; the A.F.T. makes do with an ancient brownstone in Chicago, where it was born 47 years ago. It gets only $650,000 a year in dues, and its paid staff totals 25, including President Carl J. Megel, 63, a mild if tough-talking former high school science teacher and athletic coach. A.F.T. has 450 locals, including 32 at college level, but only about 50 are nerved to act like labor unions and clinch collective bargaining agreements...
Thanks, incidentally, to the United States, the final resolution was a watered-down version of the original request by the African bloc for a total economic boycott of the increasingly vicious apartheid government of Prime Minister Verwoerd. If the democracies are divided over even this mild action, African doubts of Western sincerety can only be strengthened, and justifiably...
...recognize this unobtrusive suburbanite for one of the world's wealthiest men. About the only place that Ludwig's wealth shows through is aboard his $2,000,000 yacht Danginn, on which he occasionally likes to entertain movie stars and other celebrities while he lingers over a mild drink or soberly sips buttermilk...
...Iron Jaw. Members of his union call Gilbert "Old Iron Jaw," and the nickname fits his character as well as his physiognomy. For more than four years, he has kept on saying no. He says it quietly, often with a mild smile, but the answer nevertheless has an oak en firmness about...
...addition to the prime handicap of time limitation, the summer school chorus had to overcome many other difficulties. Singing in an open shed required powerful voices and assurance of one's own part. To achieve this, Miss Hiatt asked the members to practice special breathing methods and mild calisthenics. The chorus also practiced singing while sitting in the audience section of Paine Hall. This simulated the accoustics of the Tanglewood shed, where sound is only projected outwards, making it almost impossible for the different sections of the chorus to hear each other. Some accoustical problems, however, could not be anticipated...