Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Month. Yet Gotfred Hoelvold is no proud mining tycoon or high government potentate. The only official job he holds is a humble one. He is secretary to the director of the town planning commission, for which he gets paid approximately $115 a month. A mild, soft-spoken little man with rumpled clothes, he lives quietly with his wife and four children. The thing that sets him apart in Kirkenes is his connections. "I have friends," says Gotfred, "in Moscow...
After flying down to Rio, and running a gantlet of unhurried customs men, they sprawled on curving Copacabana Beach, drank mild guarana in the cafés, and stared at the jungled hillsides, splashed with the purple bloom of the quaresma, the "tree of Lent...
...Mild planned economy was proposed by John F. Kennedy '40, Democratic U. S. Representative from Massachusetts, and John W. Welcker, assistant professor of Business Administration at the Business School asserted that the government was meddling too much with the national economy already...
...Taft-Hartley Act and reinstated the Wagner Act with a few minor changes. Republicans in committee had tried to offer some amendments, but Thomas' Democratic majority had turned down every one, reporting the bill out on a straight 8-to-5 party vote. Vermont's mild George Aiken commented bitterly: "Might makes right." To Ohio's Robert A. Taft it was "the most highhanded" committee procedure he had ever seen...
...Month Club selection because Marquand is one of the club's five* judges (it can and will be a B-O-M "dividend" book), the novel has already gone through four printings totaling 80,000 copies. Wiseacres in the publishing business look upon the figure as a mild beginning...