Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Muttered a disconsolate Dunesman: "He laid another egg. There weren't enough clients to pay for the lights." Rejoined Cox: "Gosh!" He soon learned that even eggs can have a silver lining. His hastily hired replacement, Cinecomedian Mickey (The Atomic Kid) Rooney, showed up, took one look at mild-mannered Wally Cox, signed him up for a forthcoming Rooney Enterprises movie, Gentleman's Gentleman. The paradoxical script calls for Rooney to play hero to Cox's valet...
...freshman Congressman in a flowing tie. The canvas jibes well with a contemporary word picture of Crockett in Washington, which described Davy as "a tall, athletic man with raven-black hair, parted on his forehead and falling upon his neck, with large, keen black eyes and a mild, frank, good-natured expression of face." Just in case any small fry failed to recognize their hero as he really looked. Museum Director Perry Rathbone exhibited the portrait beside a full-scale Disney cutout of the television King of the Wild Frontier...
...Newark (N.J.) Eagles, gave him his first big chance in 1944 simply because he looked big enough (6 ft. 4 in., 225 lbs.) to throw hard. By 1946 he was throwing hard enough to make his way to a Dodger farm club in Nashua. N.H. There, a mild-mannered manager named Walter Alston learned his first lessons in handling the moody pitcher. And an up-and-coming catcher named Roy Campanella learned how to needle him into game-winning pitch...
...mental institution. This widespread incidence of mental illness makes it imperative that every safeguard be established to insure that those individuals who become mentally ill will continue to have the needed support of their families and loved ones . . . There could be instances where a husband or wife with a mild mental illness would develop a much more serious illness with the knowledge that their spouse was obtaining a divorce...
Gone the jitters which formerly hung in the rather feverish atmosphere. Gone the talk of "inevitable" war and calamity which until the other day was apt to lace nearly every conversation. Gone the talk of recessions, and depressions just around that corner. Today the mood everywhere is mild. But it is the mildness of the strong man who has little to fear...