Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national birthday party for Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka-but instead it was the tensest moment in his nearly dozen years in power. After eleven days of nationwide student demonstrations, Gomulka, 63, finally spoke out in an effort to restore order to Poland. What he said was sur prisingly mild but, partially for that reason, it failed to mollify the rebellious students. As they began a third week of defiance of the regime, the students constituted a smoldering fire that could break out at any time and engulf Poland's Communist regime...
From then on, vast numbers of telegrams and letters were exchanged by the two men, with Frankfurter sending far more than he received. Such mild expressions as "the candor, courage and conscience of your humane leadership" must have seemed routine to F.D.R., next to the uninhibited assurance that "You know how I have felt about you as a symbol of manliness . . . the symbol that is forever one of our great national possessions-utterances-as rare as they are precious, that will live forever in the amber of history." If F.D.R. ever squirmed, he never showed it. His small contribution...
...this game, what Coach Gene Kinasewich called the "toughest" of the year, the only question mark is leading scorer, center Joey Cavanagh. Cavanagh suffered a mild concussion in the New Hampshire game Wednesday and may not be quite ready...
...Johnson Administration seems not in the least worried by the prospect of a mild downturn. Rather, it is almost obsessed about the danger of runaway inflation. For all of 1968, President Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers foresees a record gross national product of some $846 billion, an increase of more than 7.8% over last year's G.N.P. Of that, real growth is expected to be a healthy 4%-with inflation accounting for the difference...
...outcome of the trial, and that seriously threatens to have such an effect." Contempt rulings would have to be backed by juries, and according to Committee members, penalties would be reprimands and fines, not prison terms, for editors and publishers. The threatened interference with the first amendment seems mild compared with the toll now taken by violations of the sixth...