Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milica's wish is unlikely to be fulfilled. The only fact signified by her sneeze was the arrival of a cold wave after a mild winter. Snow was falling outdoors, and a bitter wind mocked the worn and flimsy clothing of the city-dwellers. Beyond Belgrade, from the crags of Montenegro to the grain-belt plain of the Voivodina, everywhere in the six federated Peoples' Republics of Yugoslavia (see map), men & women shivered...
...spoofs about radio deserve a mild hand. Wally Cox, a young monologuist who writes his own stuff, deserves a very loud cheer. By means of a quiet Will-Rogersish manner and a sharp Ring-Lardnerish pen, he creates a couple of monstrously matter-of-fact characters that are both hilarious and appalling...
...pattern of the game was designed to reduce spectators to mild hysteria. Harvard opened the scoring almost immediately as Bill Garrity took a goal mouth pass from Carl Timpson and flicked it in. Midway in the opening period, Northeastern took advantage of a Harvard penalty to make a four man rush on the lone defenseman and goalie Chase it was a sure fire scoring play...
Unusually mild weather for the past two months has helped speed construction work on the Jarvis Field Graduate Center dormitories sufficiently to enable Benjamin Thompson, of Architects Collaborative, Inc., to say last night that the project will be complete before the August 31 deadline. Thomposon noted, however, that severe shows could neutralize the present advantage...
...settings of her oils were Edwardian drawing rooms with striped wallpaper and horsehair sofas, and idyllic landscapes with castles and waterfalls. They were peopled, reasonably enough, with whale-boned ladies, poker-faced children and prim nannies, and, less reasonably, with mild-seeming lions, tigers, seals, leopards, lemurs, alligators and bears with nose chains. Animals took the place of men in E. Box's dream world...