Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still shaking from the inflationary impact of the minimum wage decree when Gudin became Finance Minister, he was unable to halt the cruzeiro's slide right away. His immediate aim is to slow down the rate of in flation from the recent 2% a month to a mild 6% a year...
...concert began, the reasons for the success of the work practically hammered at the listeners' ears: this kind of music sounded big and flashy without forcing the audience out of its after-dinner stupor. The chorus sang the simplest kind of melody, from mild love lyrics and nursery-rhyme interludes to rowdy drinking songs and Teutonic gallops, set against passages of syncopated whispering and of sudden, surprising fortissimos. The orchestra sometimes provided halfhearted modernities, medieval primitivisms. Its percussion section was usually busy as a steam calliope on circus day. Most of the lyrics were in vulgarized but vital Latin...
Southern New England may expect another mild winter, Charles F. Brooks '12, professor of Meteorology, predicted yesterday...
Just in case that meanness ever begins to mellow, pro players have coaches such as the Chicago Cardinals' "Jumbo" Joe Stydahar. A mild-mannered, nervous wreck in his spare time, Joe used to be one of the nastiest customers ever to play professional ball. Once, playing tackle for the Chicago Bears, Stydahar walloped an opponent so hard that the man's arm was ripped open. Astonished officials insisted Joe must have bitten his man; they even examined his mouth. It was a waste of time. Joe couldn't have bitten if he wanted to. He had lost...
...Manhattan he served a rigorous apprenticeship, drawing border ornaments for a printer, even did some house painting. In 1922 he got a commission to do the murals for a Russian nightclub, and his fiery red devils and blue Byzantine angels created a mild stir. Soon he was in demand as a designer and illustrator. Once established, he began to try out some of the ideas defended from his old grotesque doodles, and caught the eye and fancy of the critics. Among his commissions: charts and graphs for FORTUNE, cover drawings for TIME, and a famous series of drawings of World...