Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only Melvyn Douglas finds fault with Schaefer-and even then he is apologetic: "There was one scene [in Inherit the Wind] with a little mild profanity," recalls Douglas. "The word was passed that the agency wanted the scene out. Schaefer said he'd fight for it, but in the final version it came out. Still, George is really a nice man, and he is organized. I can't tell you how important that...
...hospital, the situation seemed grim. The patient was 75 years old, his heart scarred from his earlier attack. Doctors put him under an oxygen tent and began a series of intensive tests. First results indicated it was no more than a mild attack of angina pectoris, meaning that there was an insufficient flow of blood to the heart muscle, largely as a result of hardening of the arteries. Ike himself was cheerful. The oxygen tent was removed and he even fed himself a light, low-fat breakfast, later sat up in a chair. Everyone perked up; doctors said the general...
...Smith regime but not enough to plunge the land into anarchy. It would not be an easy task. There was, for one thing, considerable doubt that Wilson's sanctions-or the parallel trade ban imposed by the U.S.-were strong enough to make Rhodesia feel more than a mild pinch, especially since prosperous South Africa would help Rhodesia make up any trade losses. But there was good reason for Wilson's stand. The blood ties between Britain and the white settlers of Rhodesia would make sterner measures highly unpopular.* And, as Wilson well knows, any recession in Rhodesia...
William Alfred, mild-mannered English professor at a great eastern university, slipped into the off-Broadway American Place Theater last Thursday evening. Three hours later, out strode a hit playwright with the best notices of the season for Hogan's Goat...
...women bed-prone, but with part of their time and part of their minds, they feel themselves part of the war effort. Although they never hear a shot fired in anger, Waugh shows how war changes or destroys them all. In the end, Waugh's hero, a mild-mannered professor of history and philosophy in peacetime, still cannot decide whether it has all been worthwhile, but he consoles himself with an aphorism, which might also be the message of the book: "It's easy to be happy when you know that you never will be happy...