Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bevan wing demanded a tough vote of censure against Churchill, against the U.S. bombing raids on the Yalu River power plants (TIME, July 7) and against the U.S. conduct of the Korean war. Attlee, concerned for Anglo-American solidarity, adamantly refused to join the movement. He favored only a mild motion censuring Churchill for having failed to get advance notice of the raids. In the angry party showdown, Attlee won, 101 to 52-but some 60 non-Bevanite Laborites abstained rather than support Attlee's leadership...
From the American Statistical Association committee, which has been fine-tooth-combing his research methods, Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) Kinsey drew a nod tempered by a mild frown. Rating Kinsey's approach as "superior" to "other leading sex studies," the committee still had a few reservations about the "highly precise conclusions [he boldly drew] from the limited samples." Also, even though the doctor's own figures didn't lie, the statisticians wondered about his interviewees, some of whom were possibly afflicted with "inaccuracies of memory." The committee suspects that the variable human...
...Mild Cheers. The winners, greeted with polite applause but no marked enthusiasm: German Drivers Hermann Lang and Fritz Riess in a Mercédès-Benz. Another Mercédès, also with German drivers, was second. Third went to a British-driven Nash-Healey. And fourth, of the 17 cars that managed to finish, was fagged-out Cunningham, who, after 19½ hours of driving, had turned the wheel over to Spear. Winning, and record, distance set by the Mercédès-Benz: 2,320 miles, at an average speed of 96.67 m.p.h...
...violence against non-Catholics. In three years there have been hundreds more. Twenty-five Protestant missionaries and communicants have been killed. Wrote Presbyterian Life's Henry McCorkle, after a trip to Colombia this year to investigate: "The situation in Colombia makes the much-publicized persecutions in Spain seem mild as a May breeze...
Peace on earth and mercy mild...