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...mild October. But then the temperatures dropped, and the cold at dusk had the first wolf of winter...
...episode of The Golden Girls, Sophia (Estelle Getty) met an old gent on a park bench, then discovered that her new friend had Alzheimer's disease. Never mind that the series has stooped to making jokes about Sophia's own near senility; this case of Alzheimer's was so mild that the viewer hardly noticed it before the fellow was whisked offscreen...
There is some mild satire poking fun at the British upper class, circa 1937. These twits are the sort whose servants laugh at them behind their backs. For them, propriety and gentility are all-important. Strong emotions are not allowed to upset the teacart. Jack describes his love for Kitty--"Well, this is the real thing. Marriage and all that."--as if it were a minor inconvenience. These characters have such stiff upper lips that they cannot kiss...
...event, Iowa voters were in no mood to be patronized on the economy, as Pete du Pont learned to his mild distress. Visiting a weekly newspaper in Onawa, du Pont depicted the stock market crash as a "vote of no confidence" by millions of small investors who did not like the presidential front runners in either party. Loren Sawyer, 27, whose mother publishes the paper, was not about to let that comment pass unchallenged. "I didn't know small, grass- roots investors pulled out," said Sawyer. "I thought it was the investment banks and large firms that panicked." Du Pont...
...gulf states and more vocal support from West European allies and even from Congress, where the Senate has been eager to enhance Congress's role in deciding gulf policy. One senior Pentagon officer said the attack on the oil platforms, though seen by some of his colleagues as too mild, was "as much as we could do to the Iranians while doing the least possible to the Congress." The Senate passed a resolution supporting the retaliation by a 92-to-1 vote. Majority Leader Robert Byrd ! called the action "minimal and appropriate...