Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. Published 16 years after it was written, this early satirical distillation of Burgess' comic imagination is worthy of his later (1963) Orwellian Clockwork Orange. A Vision unfolds the misadventures of a mild-mannered sergeant in the British Army Vocational and Cultural Corps who muddles through World War II in the incongruous bastion of imperial Britannia atop the rock of Gibraltar...
Giant-Killer. For Reagan, who is far ahead of Christopher in polls among Republican voters, the Governor had only mild contempt. Brown observed that in his last two races he had defeated "the giants," William Knowland and Richard Nixon, and that now "the Republican Party is not running its strongest candidate." Though he lightly twitted Reagan for lack of experience in public office and for being a Goldwater Republican, Brown concentrated on his own record. He claims credit for doubling the capacity of the state's higher-education system, improving the water supply and recreational facilities, providing welfare measures...
...wrong way, honking every time they pass a sign reading "Klaxon Interdit." Smuggling of everything from hashish to hand grenades proceeds under the benign eye of the customs inspector, and buying a judge's opinion is sometimes as easy as buying a crate of Lebanese apples. When mild, soft-spoken Charles Helou, 52, was elected President of Lebanon by its Parliament in 1964, everyone expected him merely to preside over this happy chaos, because, as one Beirut parliamentarian puts it, "Corruption is the Lebanese way of life, and it is no use to fight against...
...DuBridge, 60, Caltech. Mild-mannered, soft-spoken and enormously proud of his school, Physicist DuBridge is constantly on the phone as a skilled broker between Caltech's scientific resources and the nation's ever-expanding demands for scientific knowledge. He is an adviser to NASA on manned space flight, a director of National Educational Television and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation...
...most boring character of all. All he wants is to run his hotel successfully and have sex periodically. He is sleeping with the wife of an ambassador from a small South American country, and although he says he loves her, the only emotion she ever provokes in him is mild, petty jealousy. He describes events flatly and dully, and one often wonders why he ever does anything at all. His one definitive action--smuggling a prisoner across the border--is by his own admission performed only to get the man away from his mistress, even though he has no grounds...