Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critical editorials in the Tufts student newspaper, along with mild faculty objections to the chair, upset the Marcos's, a professor at the Fletcher school who asked not to be identified said yesterday, but he added that negative reaction in larger American newspapers and a tight economy in the Philippines exacerbated the situation...
Block's acquaintances regard him as a nice guy, a "perfect neighbor," as one of them said. But they fear that his mild manner and lack of Washington experience may make him a weak advocate for the farmer in the capital. Says one Kansas farm official: "They play hardball in Washington; Block has not been in that league before...
Balding and bearded, Jerry Miele pleaded with his family and friends in Pennsylvania and Ohio: "Please don't worry. I'm all right. I get depressed at times, but I'm doing fine." William Belk, whose long hair and beard are graying, managed to get a mild complaint past the censors. Greeting relatives in South Carolina and Seattle, he noted that "they're not receiving much of my mail, and I'm certainly not receiving much of their mail." Said Joseph Hall to his wife Cherilyn in Silver Spring, Md.: "I'm still...
...then: "Let us not forget that tanks and rockets could also be the reply." On Dec. 5, Solidarity declared a six-week moratorium on strikes. It also toned down its rhetoric. When the government suspended screenings of Workers 80, a film about the strikes, the union raised only a mild protest. A month earlier, such censorship would have provoked a strike threat at the very least...
...independence and gumption she has not acquired in her life as a certified Jewish American princess. It is hard to believe that a woman of 28, no matter how dippy, would think that yachting is an activity much pursued even in the new new Army, but such mild comedy as the film offers lies in watching a middle-class lady come to terms with the rigors of basic training. Even so, it cannot be said that having the tired old situations of service comedies worked by women instead of men freshens them much...