Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Economic Conference. The policy emerged mostly as a clearly reasoned plug for the kind of development job private capital and U.S. aid have been doing in Latin America, and a polite rejection of hopeful Latin American suggestions for more lavish U.S. handouts. But wedged in the middle was a mild shocker. "Military expenditures," warned the Secretary, "by their very nature act as a brake on rising living standards. They should be held to a level that will provide an adequate posture of defense...
...when some stripling outstrips you," he groaned. "You earn a place in the sun-no bigger than a dime-and it's contested every minute." Indeed, it seemed high time to trim the "Mason-Dixon line" with some low-calorie food, have his molars fixed and make a mild pass at a pretty young waitress. On such a scarred old whetstone, durable (57) Actor Elliott Nugent honed his low-pressure comedy tools last week and turned Studio One's The Unmentionable Blues into one of the more civilized comedies of the season. Looking like an older Steve Allen...
...businessmen assume that the rapidly rising U.S. population, expected to top 220 million by 1975, will progressively strengthen the nation's prosperity by creating more workers, new consumers, bigger markets, faster sales, greater industrial expansion. Last week Pittsburgh's influential Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. entered a mild dissent, warned that the growing population will produce as many problems as props for the economy. Said Senior Vice President James Neville Land, 62, in the bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing...
Asian influenza will hit the U.S. this fall before mass immunization can be effective, and the nation faces an epidemic which may strike 15 million to 30 million people. The disease is relatively mild (in no way comparable to the killing "Spanish flu" of 1918-19), and is likely to cause only a small number of deaths among the feeble young and enfeebled old. But it may compel 10% to 20% of the population in affected areas to take to their beds at the same time, thus cripple essential services...
...this film preaches with the earnestness of a morality play, but its melodramatic heights seldom attain those of Little Orphan Annie. Wallowing Methodically in his Slough of Despond, Sal Mineo-pouting, simpering, and rolling his eyeballs on the rocky road to manhood-is singularly unconvincing as a meek and mild sort of Michelangelo angel who is all set to inherit the earth...