Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said wanly, "Nobody here is hoping any more. My daughter and grandchildren are in East Berlin, only five minutes' walk from here. But I haven't been able to speak to them since September 1961." Though the reunion of families is banned. West Berliners did have some mild cause for rejoicing. A year ago, the Communists were talking noisily of an imminent separate peace treaty with the Soviet Union, with its implied threat to Allied access to West Berlin. But last week there was no mention of another Berlin blockade. In the wake of the tough U.S. stance...
...Augustine-like renunciation of riches and vows of poverty. There seemed to be a growing feeling that we had had it 'too good too long,' and that the time had come to pay the price." To the analytic-minded psychiatrist, there seems to have been a "mild but ubiquitous emotional depression, resulting from a feeling of guilt prevalent in the consumption-minded middle class, which had profited most from the postwar income revolution...
...success. Albion is usually represented by an English gentleman who is one of the most delightful creatures the earth has ever seen, in sofar as it is a question of a hurt swallow or a round of golf, but as soon as it is a question of commerce, the mild gentleman may be come a terrible and stubborn clog...
...patient, her left leg was already two inches shorter than her right. He learned that when she was three, her mother had given her almost three teaspoonfuls of vitamin-A preparation every day-about 50 times as much as the three drops her doctor had prescribed to treat a mild rash. The overdosage could be measured in the girl's blood, which showed a vitamin-A level of 943 units, compared with a normal range of 30 to 60 units. To stimulate the growth of the girl's left leg. Dr. Pease put ivory implants in the bones...
...motley without suggesting that war is fun? Director Luigi Comencini conceives an interesting solution: play humor against horror, like flint against steel, and hope that sparks will fly. Now and then they do, but usually they don't; and they don't because the humor is too mild, too healthy, too Italian. Director Comencini might as well be striking flint against ravioli...