Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next morning he hastily called a press conference to deny that he had any intention of resigning. But that afternoon he got a shock. Georgia's mild-mannered Senator Walter F. George, one of the committee's most influential Democrats, delivered...
Close behind him were Tom Drohan and Pete Steffens, who made a see-saw battle of the dive. Steffens, a mild surprise as a starter, flipped and wriggled expertly to come within five points of equaling Drohan's winning 90.63 total...
After the fuss and fairy that preceded Mr. Truman's message to Congress the message itself was somewhat of an anti-climax. That it should carry political overtones is not a mater for either astonishment or condemnation. That it should be too mild for some tastes and too strong for others is only a further indication of the innocuousness of the speech...
...press conference later, the council's mild-mannered chairman, Edwin G. Nourse, former vice president of Brookings Institution, was less chary. The scarcity of coke, steel, pig iron and railway cars, he said, "is likely to prevent production from overshooting the mark. . . . Given a fair crop year, there's a distinct possibility that 1948 will see an abatement of the inflation...
...last week, Denfeld went to see his old & good friend Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's chief of staff. In his half-smothered bass voice, pounding his fist on the desk, mild Louis Denfeld told Leahy that he wanted Radford and nobody else...