Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that in Australia the snoek is called barra-couta. He raced to a natural history museum. Ah, yes, said a learned authority there, the South African snoek (not to be confused with the basslike Gulf of Mexico snook or robalo) is indeed a barra-couta, a cousin of the mild-mannered mackerel and no relation to the barbarous barracuda...
...long as the soft autumn days lasted, people tried to forget. Madame Suzanne Schreiber, attending the annual Radical Party Congress in Nice, splashed like hundreds of others in the sea. As the Paris art season opened, Modernist Painter Man Ray's Le Beau Temps (Fair Weather) caused a mild buzz. A world congress of magicians bemused the Paris public in acts-one of which, said a wag, should be called the comrade and the fellow traveler. On Montmartre the celebration of the grape harvest turned into a fancy dress carnival...
...fired, three years ago, Frank Dobie told a Kiwanis meeting that "no self-respecting, able member of the present faculty would serve as president. But the regents will have no trouble finding a bootlicker or a quisling...." A few days later, the regents named Theophilus Shickel Painter, a mild-mannered zoology professor, as president. Governor Coke Stevenson told the regents that, if he were one of them, he would fire Dobie "without batting...
...volume of trading passed a million shares in two sessions v. only one million-share session in September. Moreover, prices edged up in all of the sessions, boosting the Dow-Jones industrial average up 3.59 for the week to 179.44. The week's activity was still too mild to confirm any trend. But traders were more cheerful than they had been in weeks...
Most such visitors caught on in a few days and trotted along home like good little boys. One who didn't is the hero-or victim-of this novel, mild, baldish Dr. John Jones, Professor of the Assyrio-Bdbylonic, Chaldean, Phoenician, Etruscan and Turkish languages at St. Jude's Theological Seminary...