Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SUSAN MCDOUGAL STRETCHED HER legs in the ample passenger space of her husband Jim's light green Mercedes 280-S as it cruised north along the winding Route 65 to the resort town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It was a mild, brilliantly sunny winter day in early 1978. Susan was wearing bell-bottom pants and a tight white tank top; she knew her husband liked the impression she made as they traveled along the rural highways. Susan gazed out on the rugged hills of north-central Arkansas and thought how pretty it was. They passed occasional signs advertising campgrounds...
After the attacks, President Clinton immediately lashed out at a regime he labeled "repressive, violent, scornful of international law." The initial steps he took were relatively mild; they included suspending air travel and asking Congress to compensate the victims' families with money taken from $100 million in frozen Cuban assets. The real bite came, however, with Clinton's sudden support for the Helms-Burton bill, which will probably pass Congress this week. The President had been resisting the bill, but Castro ordered the planes shot down during an election year, and Clinton feels he cannot afford to alienate Cuban Americans...
...Lifers, then the Republicans' problem in 1996 is going to be preventing these two groups from beginning to squabble with each other. Constitutionally, Talents and Lifers are quite different types. Talents are individualistic; they tend to look upon untrammeled opportunity as the highest good. They're the opposite of mild mannered, and they are drawn to big, bold-relief political views such as the idea that taxation is theft or that abortion is murder. Lifers are conservative in the more literal sense of the word--they're not temperamentally disposed toward radical change. They have chosen to orient their life...
...weekend should evoke at least a mild sense of deja vu for Harvard's players. Two weekends ago, the Crimson faced another big weekend against the Tigers and the Quakers with important ramifications for the Ivy League race...
...familiar scene, almost out of a Harvard viewbook. As several students gathered for dinner, the heated current events debate eventually segued into a mild-mannered discussion of future career paths. Although each of the students talked the talk of passionate concern for some aspect of public policy, not one had any desire to walk the walk of a career in the public sector. "The money in the public sector is nonexistent," said one. "Government is defined by mediocrity," expressed another. "Government is too corrupt and too bureaucratic anyway," they all chorused...