Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coinages have become firmly fixed in the American language: blurb ("self-praise; to make a noise like a publisher"); bromide (trite saying); and goop (child with beastly manners). A few that never caught on: ivog ("food on the face; unconscious adornment of the person"); slub ("a mild indisposition which does not incapacitate"); quoob ("a person or thing obviously out of place...
...smashing 160 m.p.h. winds. Tourists were huddled indoors behind boarded-up windows. Natives, expecting the worst, had battened down all hatches. Then "Easy" swerved sharply toward the east, its center missing Bermuda by 80 miles. At the same time, the force of its winds diminished. Bermuda got only a mild gale that blew down a few banana trees...
...Washington, the U.S. Public Health Service was keeping a guarded silence. The disease is so little known and so like a mild case of polio that Washington was not even sure that the Texas epidemic actually is Coxsackie and, if it is, whether that is good...
Crime with Father (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV), a new mystery series, teams Rusty Lane, a police lieutenant, with Peggy Lobbin, his bouncily helpful daughter. The opening episode had a mild surprise in a murderer who was eager to confess, but soon lost its way in a maze of overacting and rattling gunshots that sounded like small boys firing cap pistols...
...rape episode by the censors, Director Kazan had to agree to change the play's ending to punish Kowalski, though the "punishment"-his wife's refusal to have anything more to do with him-seems not only mild but temporary. Elsewhere the movie's changes are more subtle. The play took no sides between Blanche and Kowalski; the film softens her into a more sympathetic figure, turns him into more of a loudmouthed heel. The new script also muffles the undertone of sex that accompanied the hostility between the two characters in the play...