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Word: mildly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will lift consumer buying to new peaks, that low inventories will be rebuilt and spur manufacturing. To cool down recession talk, the New York Federal Reserve Bank made one of its rare public predictions, said that "the period of most severe decline may have been passed," and only "relatively mild" adjustments seem to lie ahead. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. said that chances of a real recession are diminishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Outlook for '58 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

Some of the woeful inadequacies of life when compared to fiction are made very funny, but the film is not the neat satirical gem that it could be, and for a sad reason. The two sequences of events, both acted out for use with mild ingenuity by the same cast in the same setting, are too similar. Although an amusing technical touch is added by filming the reality in black and white and the fiction in technicolor, the scriptwriters' reality is often too close to the novelist's fiction, and both are often obvious...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: A Novel Affair | 12/11/1957 | See Source »

Because of the mild stroke Eisenhower suffered Nov. 25, it had been indefinite whether he would attend the Dec. 16-18 meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: MBA Walkout Paralyzes N.Y.C. In Largest City Subway Strike; Doctors Allow Ike's NATO Trip | 12/11/1957 | See Source »

...LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 9--President Eisenhower's chief assistant, Sherman Adams, said tonight the chief executive is "back in the saddle" and on the way to complete recovery. But, Adams added, the President's mild stroke on Nov. 25 points up the need for a constitutional amendment making it clear just when the vice president shall take over in the event of a president's inability to fulfill his duties...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Indonesia Seizes Dutch Holdings In Face of Widespreading Riots; Court Rules Against Wiretapping | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

Almost 23 hours after doctors diagnosed the President's illness, the United Press and International News Service simultaneously (at 3:08 p.m.) flashed the first wire-service bulletins. Said the U.P.: "Ike has heart attack." Said the I.N.S. brain-twister: "Ike has a mild cerebral heart attack." The Associated Press lead, two minutes later, restrainedly quoted.the less dramatic verdict of a cerebral occlusion, but kept its weather eye on the headlines by explaining that "the White House called it 'a form of heart attack.' " Half an hour later, when all three wire services backed away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Up from the Bungle | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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