Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FARMERS EVERYWHERE, busy with spring chores, were giving thanks for the mild winter. Even the blast of snow and freezing weather that had hit Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded...
Hockey fans, like the game they yell at, are not polite. All season in Toronto, they had grumbled about mild-mannered Harry Watson. He seemed backward about parting the enemy's hair with his hockey stick. He was too gentlemanly-a bad thing in present-day hockey, and especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs, when the players are tearing one another limb from limb. Last week in Boston Garden, Harry squared himself with Toronto fans, anyway. With seven or eight piston-like punches, he broke the nose of Boston Bruins Murray Henderson...
...Union--an affiliate of the A.F. of L.'s Hotel Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union--contains a minority Communist influence has nothing to do with the issues of the current case. The demands appear to be both just and modest; and the striking methods have been reasonably mild. Should the Club refuse the present offer to arbitrate, alumni throughout the nation should bring pressure to bear on its management. The name of Harvard should not be connected with the sort of cutthroat labor practices that such a refusal would make evident...
...Then," said Yoshiko in mild irony, "I am grateful for the kind treatment I have received while alive in this prison." She paused briefly. "There is one thing, I should like to write a letter to my foster father." For a minute she brushed in Japanese...
...Search. A mild but touching picture, made in Occupied Germany, about a refugee child and his mother (TIME, March...