Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...programs included in it. One by one, the service chiefs-Air Force's General Thomas White. Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke. Army's General Maxwell Taylor and Marine Corps' General Randolph Pate-backed up the statement on general points, expressed budget regrets that were relatively mild; the Air Force would have liked more money to replace obsolescent B-47s faster, the Navy more for ship replacement, the Army would have liked to modernize its weapons faster, the Marines regretted a manpower cut from...
...Mild as the President's recommendations were, farm-state members of Congress found them too hard. "Antifarmer," cried North Carolina's Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Barked Louisiana's Allen J. Ellender, Cooley's opposite number in the Senate: the request for lower price supports "doesn't stand a ghost of a chance." Nor does the U.S., if Cooley and Ellender have their way, stand a ghost of a chance of coping with the farm scandal...
...Serious Humorist." A mild-mannered intellectual who prudently wears a sweater beneath his suit coat, Jules Feiffer (rhymes with knifer) got well on Sick, Sick, Sick. This was not only the title of his book but also the wry tone of his work on such topics as frustrated love in Greenwich Village, the H-bomb tests, and psychosomatic illness. Many of Feiffer's best cartoons are not funny at all, instead sting with bitterness and poignancy, e.g., the numbing isolation of a small boy whose braying mother prefers his brother. "I'm against the misuse of power...
...resistant staph just before the girls got their abscesses. Tricky test-tube work showed that the mother was carrying the same resistant staph in her nasal passages. She was a "healthy carrier." More work showed that 43 of 59 patients and staff members also carried staph, mostly in mild form. The mother is now getting a combination of antibiotics in hopes of making her a healthy noncarrier...
Doing his bit to whoop the boys up for the annual damn-the-Democrats exercises at Lincoln's Birthday fund-raising ceremonies. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn polled G.O.P. Senators on how many philippics they could unload at party rallies this year, learned to his mild horror that a bipartisan clerk had mailed one query astray. Bemused recipient of the inadvertent, fire-eating "Dear Frank" appeal: Utah's new Democrat Frank E. Moss...