Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copy of the corrected report on McCarthy's desk, McCarthy whined that he now had to go through 72 pages. "The Senator from Utah has told me that he knows what these errors are," he complained. "Why does he not mark them for me?" South Dakota's mild-mannered Republican Senator Francis Case, a censure committee member, scurried over to Joe's desk, riffled through the pages and slapped the report down so hard that papers went flying. "It's a marked copy," he snorted...
President Eisenhower's mild tone and Russia's conciliatory attitude in the case of the shot-down B-29 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) were symptoms of a new and cooler temper in the cold war. There were other readings. Sir Winston Churchill's peroration at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London expressed hope that "we might even find ourselves in a few years moving along a broad, smooth causeway of peace and plenty instead of roaming and peering around on the rim of hell." And the Soviet radio celebrated the 21st anniversary of U.S. diplomatic recognition...
...revolution." Jawaharlal Nehru adds: "Extraordinarily likable and friendly ... a man of integrity desiring peace." And an American, who worked with Ho against the Japanese in World War II, wraps up the encomium: "Ho was a very nice guy." Ho Chi Minh is a wispy man (100 Ibs.), mild and slow-spoken, and disarmingly forthright. He is a man who sits on the edges of chairs, his hands folded meekly in his lap. "You must give the people an example of poverty, misery and denial," he sometimes adjures his disciples, and off he plods, ostentatiously, through the villages, with a knapsack...
George Gobel's sudden TV popularity is as baffling as a common cold: everybody gets it, but nobody can explain it. A mild-voiced, crewcut, anonymous sort of a man, he says: "The trouble with me is, people don't remember who I am. I guess I don't make a good impression. When I go to a party, nobody says hello; but when I leave, everybody says goodbye...
There are, nonetheless, sound reasons for the mild prohibition, and they have little to do with drinking. The H.A.A.'s action, prompted more by the abuse of liquor containers than of the spirits themselves, has the laudable aim of sparing your date cuts and bruises. So far this term, several spectators, including two young ladies, have been injured by thrown beer cans and bottles. The increase of these injuries over past years is substantial, and so the Faculty Committee on Athletics took action...