Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pertinent Questions. Had Rhee killed all chances for a truce? One sign that some sort of cease-fire might still be possible came from Red Commanders Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai. In a surprisingly mild letter to Mark Clark, Kim and Peng accused the U.S. of "conniving" with Rhee to release the prisoners, but did not even threaten to break off the talks. Instead, they asked General Clark some pertinent, practical questions...
General Regret. There was sadness in the Senate as the news gradually got around. In G.O.P. quarters there was also mild irritation that Taft had handpicked Knowland, thus filling a top policy job without consulting other senior senators. After lunch, making his way through the corridors on his way to his Capitol office, Taft was stopped by colleagues, who wanted to shake his hand and wish him well. For all he had the same message: "I'll be back next session." To some he said it two or three times, as if determined to make it come true. Late...
...most campuses, no one would think there was anything very strange about the ideas of Frank Richardson. A mild-mannered man with a distracted, scholarly air, he is chairman of the biology department at the University of Nevada, has never done anything more unorthodox than ride to class on a motorcycle. But Richardson happens to believe in high academic standards and intellectual discipline. It was that belief that got him into hot water with Nevada's new President Minard W. Stout...
...Italian Flag. At the 14,000-ft. level, one of the climbers suffered a mild heart attack. There was no choice but to set up a base camp-though for an ascent of 17,000-ft. Batian Peak, the highest of the mountain's peaks, this was much too low. Nonetheless, Benuzzi and the sturdier of his two companions, taking a route that professional mountaineers had declared impassable, set out for Batian...
Trick Glasses. Before the moviemakers could recover from the shock and decide how to make Cinerama practical, Fate and an ardent film-hobbyist named Milton Gunzburg were jimmying the back door to salvation. Gunzburg, a mild little man of 42 whom one Hollywoodian has dubbed "the least likely Messiah in the history of hope," saw some home movies he had shot in 3-D, and had a great idea. "Why," he asked himself, "shouldn't a big studio be using this wonderful mechanism...