Word: mild
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...candidly acknowledge his debt to the student riots of the late '60s. A semanticist with an excellent reputation among academics, Hayakawa was approaching retirement age in 1968 when he was made acting president of San Francisco State College. The school had been sundered by violent demonstrations. Short, normally mild of mien and sporting a tam-o'-shanter, Hayakawa became an instant celebrity when he summoned riot police to the campus and suppressed the radical uprising. At one point the scholar personally ripped the wires from the protesters' public address system in mid-diatribe. Today he says...
...such questions, the Southern Baptists have undeniably exerted an influence. Prohibition still prevails in some of the most hard-drinking areas of the South, and there are even widespread restrictions on such mild forms of gambling as church bingo. But when it comes to political interference, Baptists point to a long tradition of fighting for separation of church and state. Indeed it was their fear of a Roman Catholic President that led a group of Southern Baptist ministers to join in interrogating John F. Kennedy about his religious views in 1960, the last time that religion played a major role...
Quiet Day. Compared with other fedayeen terrorist acts in the past, the Ben-Gurion incident was relatively mild; four years ago in the same terminal, members of the Japanese Red Army, allied with the P.F.L.P., killed 28 people. Nevertheless, last week's explosion was one more bloody link in the Middle East's seemingly endless chain of anguish. Another and more important one is the civil war in Lebanon, where almost 20,000 people have been killed in nearly 14 months of inconclusive fighting. That conflict has reached the point where it is considered a quiet...
Premier Takeo Miki is regarded in Japan as a mild-mannered and even distressingly passive leader. Last week, however, he displayed a streak of combativeness worthy of a samurai. Facing a concerted effort by bosses of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to force his early resignation, Miki defiantly announced during a televised press conference that he would refuse to step down prematurely. He also abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with Party Vice President and Elder Statesman Etsusaburo Shiina, 78, that was widely expected to be the showdown between the Premier and his foes...
...depend on what happens to prices. Says Sidney Jones, the Treasury Department's top economist: "The heart of consumer spending is confidence that inflation is under control, and the key to keeping people buying is to keep prices at a reasonable level." Right now, after slowing to a mild 2.9% early in the year, inflation is once again moving up slightly: in April the rate climbed to 4.9%, due largely to higher costs for food and fuel. As a result, several polls, including one by the Conference Board, a business-sponsored research concern, and another by Sindlinger...