Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild-mannered, snood-eyed Melvin Jerome Blanc (pronounced blank) has more job offers than he can fill. He has ducked proposals for a show of his own, prefers to pocket the $2,000 a week he gets from making the big stars a little bigger. That way, he says, he can spend his free time fishing, eating eclairs and running a hardware store in Los Angeles County. Reading his fan mail over Jack Benny's shoulder doesn't bother...
Rumpled Cordiality. The cards were put face up. Curtly but calmly Vishinsky spoke of "the new outbreak of Fascist terror" in Greece and the use of British troops there as "a danger to peace and security." As mild in manner, Bevin was even rougher in words. In Greece, he said, Britain "could have done as was done in Rumania by Mr. Vishinsky-put in a minority government. . . . The danger to the peace of the world has been the incessant propaganda from Moscow against the British Commonwealth and the incessant utilization of the Communist Parties in every country in the world...
Hitler's book burnings, and all that went before, were only a mild beginning. The destruction of books and libraries in World War II "probably exceeds by many times the destruction of all previous wars and catastrophes put together." So report Librarians Milton E. Lord and Kenneth R. Shaffer in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Their findings...
...remained for mild, uncertain Lewis Clark to toss the year's toughest talk into the labor debate. When the Government seized the packing plants last week, to end a nine-day-old strike, Lewis Clark shouted: "A complete double cross. . . . The President of the U.S. has engaged in a strikebreaking action, the sole effect of which can be to play into the hands of the packers...
...General Proposes. State, War and Navy Departments agreed on the necessity of espionage and on the greater necessity of getting all the foreign intelligence funneled into one office. It was over control of the agency that the fight had been waged-a fight centering around mild, determined Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, infantry hero of World War I and head of the Office of Strategic Services during World...