Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result would be that the reorganization of the Liberal Cabinet, promised by Prime Minister King before the House reassembles in January, would now have to be little more than a mild reshuffle. He could not appoint any Cabinet member to a job which would take him out of the House and cause another by-election...
Because he concocts his cartoons out of local news items, and refuses to change his ways, mild-mannered Francis Dahl has never been syndicated. But for his collections of reprints (LeftHanded Compliments; What! More Dahl?), he would be unknown outside New England. This week, in his fourth book (Dahl's Boston; Atlantic Monthly Press-Little, Brown; $2.50), he offered the world peripheral to Boston another peek at "the American Athens." This time Dahl had a collaborator: cheery, pipe-smoking Charles W. Morton, associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
...reconversion problems of three Gyrencs (Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum, Bill Williams) who are mustered out of the service after overseas duty with the Corps. All three return to civilian life with considerable handicaps--Williams minus two legs, Mitchum with a silver plate in his skull, and Madison with a mild ease of the situational reaction that used to be called 'combat fatigue' earlier in the war. Williams can't bear donning his painful artificial legs or admitting that his boxing career is over; Mitchum refuses to tell his family about his disability or to seek adequate medical care; and Madison...
...shrill pitch of abuse heaped upon the President continued to echo. So mild a man as Harry Truman might well wonder at the temper of his countrymen...
City College's President Harry N. Wright, a mild-mannered, meticulous Quaker who loves problems, never runs short of them. Examples: cramming the overgrown student body into buildings designed for half the present enrollment; trying to counteract the slanders and slights that City College sometimes receives because of its 85% Jewish student body...