Word: mildered
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...that hour the Senate will start balloting on any pending amendments, including a motion by 11 Democrats to substitute a milder bill...
...questioned Baruch's interpretation. Said he: "What the representative of the U.S. proposes actually is a revision of the [U.N.] Charter. The fact that the American proposal provides for a voluntary relinquishment of the so-called 'veto' . . . does not change the situation." But this was a milder Soviet objection than many previous ones...
...decided that a useful death ray would have to 1) burn a half-inch hole in a four-inch plank in five seconds; 2) burn a six-inch live tree two miles away in three minutes; 3) kill small animals at 5,000 feet in three seconds. Reason: anything milder would not be valuable militarily...
There is less suggestion in the book than in the film that the seagoing proletariat is getting the life squeezed out of it for the satisfaction of a martinet and of the shipowner's wallet. The original account, in fact, is milder but more interesting, and obviously the work of a levelheaded and observant young man who had a sober interest in setting down neither more nor less than...
...George Reresby Sitwell of Renishaw was an extraordinary man. He spent money like water, dabbled in medieval lore, invented a musical toothbrush that played Annie Laurie. In a milder way, his wife, Lady Ida, was extraordinary too. Though she invented nothing, she also spent money like water (she once paid a large price for a pig said to be psychic), as befitted a daughter of the Earl of Londesborough and a descendant of the royal Plantagenets...