Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hierarchy. Curious spectators stood for hours in pushing lines for seats to the small upstairs room, finally forced the committee to move down, to a big third-floor courtroom. There flashbulbs flared like heat lightning through the forest of television and newsreel cameras. From the judge's bench, mild-mannered Estes Kefauver presided with a firm hand, as Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley, an able, professionally annoying examiner, hammered at the unhappy witnesses. At Kefauver's right sat Maryland's judicial-mannered Herbert O'Conor, Wyoming's Lester Hunt and New Hampshire's pious...
...committee had caught Costello in a clear case of perjury. Next day, Costello came back to the courtroom looking ruffled, shrunken and malevolent. His throat was inflamed, the television lights bothered him, and he was in no condition to testify further, his lawyer declared. Mild-mannered but firm, Kefauver insisted he should try to answer a few questions. Rasped Costello: "I want to testify truthfully and my mind don't function . . . With all due respect for the Senators-I have an awful lot of respect for them-I am not going to answer another question ... I am going...
With rare political courage and good economic sense, Canada has been fighting inflation with fiscal measures first. Last fall, mild credit restrictions were imposed on most consumer goods. They were not enough. The cost-of-living index climbed from 172.5 to 175.2 in January...
...Americans, used to a light, mild-tasting beer, did not take to the bitter draught. And when Guinness launched an advertising campaign, the Treasury censored its famed slogans, including "My Goodness, My Guinness" (a weak substitute: "A Man's Drink...
Both Dean Bender and Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 expressed mild surprise that the fluctuation was so slight. Bender said yesterday that he had expected the figures would show a sharper decline in marks than proved to be the case...