Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain. Next day mild, dapper José Giral, Premier of the Spanish Republican Government in exile, appeared before the Council's subcommittee on Spain to warn that Franco had 1,590,000 soldiers. Earlier in the week the U.S. had reported that Spain's "armed forces have continued their overall trend of gradual reduction in size...
...foot of a tall beam from which dangled a hangman's noose. A heavy leather belt was tied around his chest and two assistants hauled him to the top of the beam, where a white-gloved hangman fastened the noose around his neck. The assistants let go. A mild cheer broke out and was hushed by court dignitaries. Of all the eyes that watched, not one was softened by compassion...
...likelihood for the Irish family Hooligan whose rioting through London's Southwark was immortalized in a music hall song of the period.* Later cartoonist Frederick B. Opper endeared well-meaning, disastrous Happy Hooligan to millions. The U.S. State Department says that in Soviet law hooliganism means "a mild form of disorderliness...
...chill autumn twilight, Pedro Pisani, citizen of Buenos Aires, sat on the sidewalk before his three-room suburban home, sipped unsugared mate (South American tea), and considered his lot. He was worried about the future. Argentine-born son of Italian immigrants, father of three, mild-mannered Pedro had worked for 20 years or more in the offices of Gath & Chaves, a big downtown department store. Until two years ago he earned $50 a month. Since then, Juan Perón's election-time decrees (and the store's voluntary raises) had upped his pay to $63. Still...
...said Royal Little, the mild, 50-year-old president of Textron Inc., whose unconventional production ideas have built a textile empire in less than three years. Last week Wildman Little did turn a trick. He paid $12 million to Benjamin Brown Gossett for his mills in Charlotte, N.C. and Anderson, S.C., thus adding twelve southern mills to Textron's 13 in New England, and more than doubling Textron's cotton and rayon capacity. But Little still has to perform his main trick-making Textron the most integrated and most profitable U.S. textile company...