Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever Stam's exact words were, they gave the committee pause. Sentiment grew for a compromise bill that would combine a mild excess-profits tax with a slight boost in the regular rates on corporation income...
Jones, incidentally, drew almost as much attention as Massios. He is a balding, bespectacled gentleman whose mild manner belies his reputation as "the first man show, and during a lull in proceedings emptied his pockets of loose change and gave a demonstration of head and hand balances, including, of course, his specialty. After a couple of trials, he was able to remain two or three seconds on his thumbs, which are normally quite ordinary...
...there are two differences: 1) the temperature stays mild and steady (mean annual temperature 55° F.) along most of the U.S. soil range and 2) rainfall increases toward the seaboard where it is most needed. In Russia, the mean temperatures are much lower and rainfall is only moderately higher in the poor-soil areas of the north. In the U.S., climatic factors become more favorable as soil gets poorer; in the U.S.S.R. soil and climate become less favorable together. Agriculturally, Russia runs the wrong...
...General Assembly, President Nasrollah Entezam of Iran made a mild attempt to take the Chinese bull by the horns. Entezam wanted to name a seven-nation committee to study the question of whether Nationalist or Communist delegates should represent China in the U.N. Under Russian pressure, Entezam decided to forget his plan temporarily. Like everything else, it would have to wait...
Ivon Kitchens is a mild, silver-haired sparrow of a man with an enviable reputation: Britons (who pride themselves in such matters) consider him one of their best living landscape painters. Last week Kitchens was bidding for a reputation in an altogether different field: his new exhibition at London's Leicester Galleries consisted almost entirely of reclining nudes. Moreover, the limp, heavy figures, painted in broad strokes of summery colors, were an instant hit. Kitchens' switch to nudes, said the London Sunday Times, "has wrought a double change in his pictures, making them both richer in color...