Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opponent who had pledged "not to lift a finger" in active candidacy. The lackluster winner: 42-year-old Governor C. (for nothing) William O'Neill; the loser: former Cincinnati Mayor Charles P. Taft, who had filed only as a "standby" after O'Neill suffered a mild heart attack (TIME...
Gogol's two one-actors are as littleknown as almost any plays produced at Harvard this year: there is only one copy of them in English at Widener, and the card catalogue at Lamont never heard of them. They are not bad plays, exactly, but we have sources of mild, spasmodically funny comedy nearer home, and it is no wonder that only the diligence of Eric Bentley has brought them to American attention...
...gestured about the body-strewn room with a mild indulgence. "Most of 'em aren't used to drinking--more than a tumbler of sherry on cold afternoons. Why, our last big event was a tea for Krishna Menon, only Krishna Menon never showed--and tea, well...
...McArthur thinks the Service may be the best solution. The benefits of the Army seem to be that there is much time for contemplation, that the Army offers an ordered and directed life, and that Army life is so unpleasant that upon re-entering one can better tolerate the mild restrictions of Harvard...
...nature was perhaps best manifest in oral examinations. As one student commented, "Many a candidate felt relief, after being subjected to a host of merciless, polished questions, at Kittredge's taking over the exam with his mild kindliness and amazing ability to elicit information from exhausted minds that objected to thinking further." Once a frightened candidate for Honors in English said in reply to one of his questions, "I'm afraid I can't answer; I have not read all of Wordsworth." Kitteredge reassuringly disclosed, "Neither have I. I couldn't be hired to." He always helped the candidate...