Word: mild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life's, work in what were his least controversial words. "I shall hope," he said simply, "that each of you will believe that through the years I have been faithful to your interests." Lewis' successor as U.M.W. president for the final year of his four-year term: Mild, humorous Vice President Thomas Kennedy, 72, a miner since 1900, onetime Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1935-39), who has lived and worked faithfully for 40 years in John L.'s massive shadow...
...sudden closing, Hazelhoff announced dramatically, RFE had averted "an attempted mass poisoning"; a double agent in RFE's employ had tipped off authorities that he had been assigned by a Communist diplomat to replace the normal cafeteria salt shakers with others that he was told contained "a mild laxative." When contents of two suspect shakers were analyzed, their salt was found mixed with 2.36% by weight of atropine, a deadly white, crystalline alkaloid poison made of the nightshade plant. For adults, as little as 10 mg. of atropine can cause coma, and a salt-hungry canteen customer might presumably...
...Italy's Nobel Prizewinning Poet Salvatore Quasimodo (TIME. Dec. 21) has had tall, blonde, sad-eyed Liliana Fiandra, 24, who proved her devotion to Leftist Quasimodo last year when at her own expense she rushed to Moscow to be at his bedside after he had a mild heart attack. But when Quasimodo, 58, took Liliana to Stockholm with him earlier this month for the Nobel ceremonies, Maria, 44, apparently viewed it as the last straw. Last week, taking a short recess from her dancing school, she was threatening a legal separation (Italy doesn't go in much...
Just before the final curtain at a Broadway opening one night last week, the theater critic of the New York Times, a mild, slender, unassuming man with steel-rimmed spectacles and a grey mustache, slipped inconspicuously out of the Lyceum Theater and walked two blocks back to his paper. He settled into his chair on the third floor of the Times building on 43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched...
...President Luis Ruiz Cortines, the country piled up a $96 million deficit abroad, a budget in the red by $66 million. LÓpez Mateos reversed course and slashed imports by $20 million a month by whacking public spending. The results: a severe crimp in the construction industry, a mild recession through much of the economy, but a nearly balanced budget and a favorable trade balance of $145 million so far this year. The peso has stayed at a sound...