Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside in the rain, a picket line of antiCommunist Czechs marched-as they had marched when Prochazka arrived in New York (TIME, Aug. 20)-carrying such signs as, "How dare you come to a free country with blood dripping from your hands?" Prochazka, a tough, doctrinaire Communist behind his mild, owl-eyed front, was with the President five minutes. The dialogue was described later by White House Press Chief Joe Short (who got it from the President...
...Detroit, Henry Ford II explained that his wife had been bedridden for six days by polio, but was up and around again "with no known effects as the result of this very mild attack...
Then, without warning, pain and sudden death clutched Pont-Saint-Esprit. On a Saturday night three weeks ago, the town's doctors began getting calls from people complaining of heartburn, stomach cramps and fever chills. At first, they thought it was a mild epidemic of meat poisoning. But the calls kept flooding in. By Monday, 70 houses in the village had become tiny hospitals, with most of their families in bed. Then the doctors found their first clue: every one of the patients had eaten bread from the shop of Baker Roch Briand. All eight of Pont-Saint-Esprit...
Whenever the good, grey New York Times scored a notable beat on labor union news over the past quarter-century, competing papers scarcely needed to look at the byline to know who had scooped them. Almost always it was studious, mild-mannered Louis Stark, ablest of U.S. labor reporters...
...William Cowper's kindly beckoning, the readers of two centuries have lulled away many a peaceful evening-cheered, but never inebriated-at the mild brew of his poetry. Cowper (rhymes with hooper) is remembered fondly as a plump old country gentleman in a billowy cap; apt to giggle, but otherwise of a most pleasing conversation; delighted with his bed of pinks, devoted to his hares; the least pretentious and the most lovable of England's 18th Century poets...