Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better to hear the ancient waters. At another he intones, "You can't find oil if you are not honest; I'm not sure I know how to explain this." The rueful part, after the semicolon, redeems the rest. He natters on about his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hughes, whose mild, pleasant drawings accompany the text. Is he happy with her? Without her? Will they marry? One wonders whether, as a suitor, he will ever top an early gambit, when he invited her to a park to share a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, then showed up with the ingredients...
...Volume I of Norman Sherry's meticulously protracted biography takes the English novelist step by step, from his birth in 1904 to 1939. Readers of Greene's memoir A Sort of Life may experience a mild paramnesia as they again hear of the novelist's neurotic childhood, his crush on his psychoanalyst's wife, his dissolute years at Oxford, his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his beginnings as a journalist, and the physical and spiritual wanderings that led to the writing of his popular moral thrillers...
...Frazier is the latest to light out, looking for locals with twangy accents, and it's still a fine, fresh idea. There is plenty of West to go around, it turns out. Frazier pokes about in the Plains states, to the east of the Rockies, letting his own mild adventures and rummagings in small-town museums drift into recollections of the old days. "Indians thought the white men's custom of shaking hands was comical," he reports, enchanted by this odd information. "Sometimes two Indians would approach each other, shake hands, and then fall on the ground laughing...
...firing on the battleship U.S.S. Iowa, the Navy presented one of the heroes of | the disaster at a press conference: Gunner's Mate Third Class Kendall Truitt, 21, who had been sacking powder in a lower-level magazine when the blast took 47 lives. A bespectacled sailor with a mild manner, Truitt calmly recounted his escape from the burning turret. Last week the Navy's inconclusive probe of the explosion took a bizarre twist, and Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly as a hero. Investigators said Truitt might have set off the explosion to kill a shipmate...
Siegel, who is comparatively mild-mannered as talk hosts go, joined KING last November. He has railed against local police for laxity in the antidrug war and against Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Lorenzo (he joined a picket line during the current Eastern strike). Soon he hopes to stir passions over the savings and loan bailout. "I'm not a Pied Piper," he says, "but I do believe in what...