Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model and longtime movie star (54 films in the past 20 years), Lucille Ball is currently the biggest success in television. In six months her low-comedy antics, ranging from mild mugging to baggy-pants clowning, have dethroned such veteran TV headliners as Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey. One of the first to see the handwriting on the TV screen was Funnyman Red Skelton, himself risen to TV's top ten. Last February, when he got the award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as the top comic of the year, Skelton walked to the microphone and said...
...sight was the hammer & sickle. The party firebrands were unnaturally mild: gone were the outright attacks on the Vatican, the sneers at liberals. The crucial municipal elections in some 2,000 communities in southern Italy were only two weeks away, and Rome, the greatest prize, lay within the Reds' grasp...
...showdown cabinet meeting last week, Lechin backed down. Afterwards, addressing 15,000 partisans with Paz Estenssoro, he made a mild speech terming nationalization "an act of national defense." Later he added: "We shall nationalize, but we shall have to study the matter. Surely no one thought I was serious when I mentioned 30 days...
...Gloria must have dedicated considerable time to her experiments," says the mild-mannered scientist. "Physically alone, this accomplishment was, for such a small animal, worthy of recognition...
...Animal (by James Thurber & Elliott Nugent) got the spring season at Manhattan's City Center* off to a very happy start. For what was never much of a play, The Male Animal seems, after twelve years, remarkably engaging entertainment. In chronicling the academic and domestic woes of a mild-mannered English professor, Nugent kept the stagecraft under enough control for Thurber to make all else seem delightfully muddled and periodically...