Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hill, were worried that the "student unrest" would prove to be a spur for repressive legislation--against students, and perhaps indirectly, against the universities themselves. While the final legislative results are not in, it does appear, however, that the Congressional reaction to campus commotion has thus far been surprisingly mild...
...measure which seemed to have the best chance of passage was relatively mild compared to some of the measures in bills introduced. This bill--introduced by Rep. John N. Erlenborn (R.-Ill.) and strongly supported by Rep. Green as an alternative to more stronger bills--would have required any colleges recelving federal funds to file with the Commissioner of Education its rules for on-ampus behavior and the maintenance of order. In an effort to gain more support, it was later amended so that colleges would only have to draw up such rules, and show them to the commissioner...
BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men-one mild and monogamous, the other tormented and libertine-over the fate...
...first strike" rule. Still, the U.S. has in effect forsworn any intention of initiating deadly chemical-biological warfare. The use of herbicides to defoliate Vietnamese jungles, plus tear gas and CS to drive the Viet Cong from their tunnels, has brought some criticism; yet the effects have been exceedingly mild compared with the potential of other available chemical weapons...
...mild-mannered, happily married man who belongs to no all-male societies himself, Tiger does not provide any tidy answers to some large questions raised by his book. Why have bonds between females, a sociological fact that he acknowledges, been so weak and so much less of a cultural force than male affinity? And in a war-torn world where nonaggressive, peace-loving women outnumber men, why has the female instinct for serenity not determined the political climate? Tiger, who holds that the male instinct for dominance is today as much a menace as a blessing, suggests that...