Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things William Green likes best about being president of the American Federation of Labor is the opportunity it gives him to ride on trains. Mild, deaf, ministerial Bill Green travels 20,000 miles a year on them, but he never tires of the cushioned delights of Pullman bedrooms, is never bored by the sight of flying landscapes. To Bill Green, an old and often lonely man, the railroad ticket is a badge of success, a heart-warming reminder that he is in demand as a speaker, has a salary of $20,000 a year (plus expenses) and a place...
...average citizen, labor's fury and consternation over the Taft-Hartley Act was a cause for mild astonishment. It had long seemed inevitable that the Wagner Act would be replaced by a more conservative measure. Labor excesses and labor's stupidity-its irresponsible use of strikes, its scorn of public opinion, its tolerance of gangsters in its ranks-had hastened the advent of such...
...Venezuela's 4,200,000 people, 90% live close to the Caribbean coast. They prefer the mild climate, the cities' culture and the wealth from oil to a frontiersman's life in the rough & tough interior. As a result, the winning of Venezuela's West (actually its South) is still a century-old dream. An English colony failed at Betajoque, a French colony in Maracaibo; 30 miles from Caracas, the capital, is the blond, impoverished remnant of a 19th Century German colony. But the old dream lives on: now Venezuela hopes to push back her frontier...
Germany's Chance. A minor street incident six years later helped convince Shirer that Germany still dreamed. Shirer, picking his way through ruined Berlin, saw two Russian soldiers arresting a mild, elderly U.S. colonel. Charges: snapping a picture of Russian MPs rounding up some black marketeers. A crowd of Germans formed out of nowhere to see the fun. ". . . Off to the jug he was marched while the Germans guffawed. Perhaps, I thought, they saw their first glimmer of hope in this little incident. In the end - Ja? - the Russians and Americans would never understand each other, never get along...
...still something of a puzzle. As a summer fill-in for Veteran Jack Benny, Paar has set no new records. His Hooperating, beginning with a mild 10.2 on June 1, drooped steadily to an ominous 4.8 in late summer. Radio people had all but dismissed him as a heady, handsome prima donna whose humor was too specialized and too sophisticated...