Word: mild
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Ellen Burstyn is called upon to cover a physically and emotionally broad range of acting. While empathetically assuming the pain of an invalid she goes through an impressive series of facial and bodily contortions. Ordinarily possessed of a mild countenance with round, gentle features, her face can grow taut with anger or sadness...
...from 31 to 19, to 27 to 23, As expected, the two Republican incumbents-Delaware's Pierre S. Du Pont IV and Vermont's Richard Snelling coasted to victory, while Indiana's Lieutenant Governor Robert Orr succeeded his retiring G.O.P. predecessor, Otis Bowen. There was a mild upset in North Dakota, where Republican State Attorney General Allen Olson edged out the incumbent, Democrat Arthur Link. Democratic Governors won re-election in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Utah. In Montana, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ted Schwinden won the top job after upsetting Governor Thomas Judge...
...Mild epithets have replaced the issues in this campaign. Bachrach is calling the 68-year-old McCann an "invisible Senator," and McCann replies that Bachrach is so unfamiliar with the area, "if you put him in the State House, he'd be lost in ten minutes...
This was John Bartlett, the mild and scholarly proprietor of the University Book Store in Cambridge, Mass., who was asked so often about the origin of some quotation or other that he decided in 1855 to print a small (295 pages) collection that he entitled Familiar Quotations. Out this month from Little, Brown, in which Bartlett eventually became a senior partner, is the 15th edition of his little collection, the first updating in ? twelve years. Now 1,540 pages, with 22,500 quotations, it is a sockdolager, Nearly 3,000 of the quotations are new| to this edition, ranging from...
...bellwether housing industry is once again poised for a painful plunge. As the nation's economy grew by a modest 1% between July and September, home building enjoyed a mild rebound from a steep drop it suffered last spring. But the new run-up in mortgage rates, which has pushed the cost of money to 14.5% in California and New York City, has left millions of home buyers anxiously waiting once again for the cost of money or the price of houses to come down. Says Merrill Butler, president of the National Association of Home Builders: "This...