Word: mildered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climate, too, grows milder and comes to resemble that of southern Virginia. In both North and South Korea, rainfall is almost entirely confined to July and August. The heavy concentration of rainfall is welcomed in the wide, southern valleys, which contain three times as much rice paddy land as the North, and where two crops a year of rice, barley, wheat or rye are harvested. Heart of the South is Seoul, which lies among granite hills overlooking the lordly Han River. The Japanese built wide avenues and modern buildings in Seoul's westernized center, but most of the city...
...repudiated. "Spreading what [Beaverbrook & Co.] knew to be a lie," said the Tribune, was the kind of journalism that was "lower than [Lord] Kemsley" (the Tory publisher of four London Sunday papers, one London daily and 37 other papers, with a combined circulation of 10,000,000). In characteristically milder fashion, the Manchester Guardian also took Publisher Beaverbrook to task for "the Evening Standard's mare's nest about [Strachey]." Last week, a new attack on the Beaver came from within his own journalistic family. James Cameron, 39, who has averaged 100,000 miles a year as chief...
Cooling the Cans. When the cans first come out of the pile they are fiercely radioactive. Men with long poles flip them into thick-walled lead tunnels to cool off. After eight hours, most of the aluminum's short-lived activity has died away and the cans' milder-mannered contents are safe enough to work...
...monsignor), pleasantly dusted with conventual and clerical badinage. It is the brighter for the deft warfare between John Williams and Grace George, who with all the airiness of a butterfly can impose the sting of a bee. But the play, a theatrical ladyfinger from the start, gets milder, thinner and crumblier as it proceeds...