Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans had captured the independent vote-and then promptly lost it. To Connecticut's Senator Raymond Baldwin, the reasons for the loss were clear as early as 1947. The independent voters, he pointed out then, had wanted mild labor legislation, housing, something done about high prices, protection through rent controls. The 80th Congress gave them the Taft-Hartley law, no housing, no action on prices, and raised rents...
...even reduced a comic-book rival--Batman--to a subordinate position in the Superman show. Batman is permitted to knock off a minor thug once in a while, and occasionally rescue some imperilled citizen, but he is clearly inferior to Superman. In private life--that is, when Superman becomes "mild-mannered Clark Kent," a newspaper reporter--Batman turns out to be the publisher of the newspaper, but this is just...
What did the elections mean? Though not a completely accurate reflection of popular sentiment, they confirmed significant trends: 1) the continuing upsurge of Gaullist strength; 2) a mild revival of the Radical Socialists, the nearest French approximation to U.S. Republicans; 3) the decline of the Communists; and 4) the final collapse of the M.R.P...
Maldarelli looks like a chunky businessman, mild and bespectacled. The respectful attention he gets from art critics seems to mean less to him than the affection of his students, who call him "Mai." Wearing a hat made of newspaper to keep the chips out of his hair, he lets them look on while he carves, knocks off now & then to serve tea. "When I get bored with myself I go and see what the students are up to. I don't dictate, and I don't make them work too much from the model. The important thing...
...spring, a young man's fancy; in the fall, woolly bear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, it will be a mild winter. If the brown band is narrow, the winter will be a freezeroo. So countrymen in the northeastern states have believed...