Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s spent nearly six years on loan to the National Security Council staff, where he worked for Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. A career analyst, Gates had no experience in CIA intelligence-gathe ring operations until he became Casey's deputy in April. Although his demeanor is mild, Gates once wrote a blistering critique of the CIA's ill-focused analytical process, and in 1981 Casey picked him to sharpen the agency's information-reporting procedures. The results helped to restore the CIA's reputation after a succession of intelligence failures during the Carter Administration. Today, says State Department Deputy...
...rusty old sky-blue Mobylette." It made a terrible noise that his laughing students likened to a "tubercular cough." He always dressed simply, allowed no jokes and demanded punctuality, but he was a popular teacher who never punished his charges. At the end of each lesson, the mild man in sandals generally delivered a brief lament for the corruption of their society...
Although Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the radical group which led the occupation, attacked the ad hoc committee as illegitimate, it won praises from many in the Harvard community for imposing mild punishments on all but a few of the University Hall protesters...
Bissell, whose face was recognized from a post office wanted poster, was described by friends and co-workers as a gentle, mild-mannered man who painted in his spare time. "If he's guilty, he's going to have to pay the price," said Neighbor Dave Bartel. "But I hope they take into account that he's not blowing up buildings anymore. The guy's been living quietly and responsibly for a long time...
Once these characteristics seemed at worst material for mild jokes (Reagan has told some of the funniest), at best part of the charm and uncluttered vision that made him an effective leader. His oblivious attitude and shaky understanding of issues has long been a public secret; indeed it is the worrisome basis for his defense of himself from any Iranscam culpability. But even if his poor concentration is no worse than it has been for years, the problems it has recently caused and the sense of drift that has emerged make it a matter of concern once more...