Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli reaction to Prince Fahd's call for a holy war was mild. Proclaimed a foreign ministry spokesman: "We are not shocked and we are not worried." The Israelis, in fact, seemed far more preoccupied with the latest internal squabble of Begin's faltering government. This time the Prime Minister was at odds with his lawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a hero of the 1973 October War, who las made no secret of his desire to be Defense Minister. Begin has held that post since the resignation of Ezer Weizman last May, but he has only been able...
...little hell back at the Olympic Village, where Orwellian security measures were putting everyone on edge. Frustrations finally boiled over one night at the village discothèque, where several dozen Western athletes protested the customary 11 o'clock closing. As disco infernos go, it was pretty mild stuff: some boozy scuffling with Soviet police, a lot of hollering, a small-scale food fight. But Soviet officialdom took it very seriously, as a headline from TASS, the state news agency, made clear: THEY SHOULD BE THROWN BEHIND BARS...
...disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fought a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American Way? Christopher Reeve, of course. Faster than a speeding bullet, Reeve finished making Superman II and leaped to Williamstown, Mass., for a summer-stock revival of the 1928 classic, The Front Page. He may have ducked into a phone booth to change to period costume, but he has not left journalism. As Hildy Johnson, not-so-mild-mannered reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner, he fights a never-ending battle to prevent truth from getting...
...Georgetown University Hospital. There he will be debriefed by State Department officials and treated for multiple sclerosis, which U.S. doctors last week diagnosed as his affliction. The physicians who examined him at the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, are optimistic that Queen will suffer only mild and transient effects from the disease...
...thunderous Mississippian straight out of Faulkner, had vainly tried to kill both Will and himself. A later attempt at suicide succeeded, spurring Will to set out on a path as unlike his father's as possible: "God, just to get away from all that and live an ordinary mild mercantile money-making life, do mild sailing, mild poodle-walking, mild music-loving among mild good-natured folks." He sees now that "his little Yankee life had not worked after all," that his father tried to shoot him out of mercy rather than cruelty. The question posed...