Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mild modern stereotype of a Quaker would surprise the fiery Friends of George Fox's 17th Century as much as today's average idea of a Christian would surprise the dangerously living followers of St. Paul. The early Quakers were not quaint and softspoken; they were religious enthusiasts of passion and vociferous outrage who were not afraid to raise their voices against a minister in his pulpit or a slave dealer at his market...
...quieted them down. He asked how many farmers had sent in the area estimates from, which the Crop Reporting Board got its total. There was a big show of hands. Slightly abashed, most of the delegates agreed that the board was probably doing the best it could, passed a mild resolution asking only that "means to improve the accuracy of the estimates" be looked into...
...Wallace began hearing from his own offices about interviews TIME correspondents were conducting all over the world, he expressed mild wonderment, confiding to Researcher Ruth Brine: "I'm getting calls from all over-Montreal, Seattle, Pittsburgh. I think it's going to be a useful lesson...
...judges, after a cautious look around, avoided both extremes, and handed three of the four top prizes to mild essays in expressionism...
...near the earth and raises general hell with the tides. Enormous glaciers crash into the sea, earthquakes rumble, and, in a particularly satisfying scene, New York City is destroyed and inundated by the Atlantic ocean. The actual collision between earth and the second planet is shown as a mild pink blip on the TV screen of an escaping rocket ship...