Word: mildest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They have utterly no conception of the humiliations and deprivations which the mildest of occupations must impose...
...Joint Chiefs, dividing the Pacific command by function rather than by area, had said in April that they might designate either MacArthur or Nimitz as commander of any future offensive. But MacArthur's statement provoked Nimitz to the mildest of replies. For the record, he pointed out, "Control of all naval and naval air forces, naval bases and naval installations" in the Ryukyus remains in his command; the strategic bombers remain under Spaatz's command. Spelling it out, Nimitz emphasized that naval commanders in the Ryukyus report direct to him-not through MacArthur...
...citizens liked the new British Government or thought it a political menace, they had to face the fact of its existence. For the time being at least, the U.S. would be the only capitalist country among the great powers. Americans could now watch socialism in one of its mildest forms in action in a country which was most nearly like their own, under the direction of responsible men. Whether this would cause a revision in the U.S. way of doing things was a question for the future...
...will be come increasingly heavy from now on. I ask for full public cooperation in preventing any aggravation of this burderion domestic transportation, for it would slow down the rate at which soldiers can be reunited with their loved ones." But the President had described the picture in the mildest of terms...
...plain-speaking Post. His defensive equipment includes a bland, impressive air, two years of boxing lessons from Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett, and a one-round 1942 decision over Jesse Jones, who also once objected to a Post editorial. From this armory of possible defenses, Publisher Meyer chose the mildest. Said he: "Mr. Secretary, I will be glad to discuss this with you after you have calmed down a little." Having given the Secretary of State a lesson in diplomacy, he walked away...