Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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year a goodly number of Undergraduates violate the stern of mighty Harvard. Whether their offense is prompted by the overindulgence of an adventurous or by rebellion against a conscience, most fledgling lawbreakers eventually run afoul Administration. Student offers provoke two types of reaction from University Hall: mild annoyance and livid rage. And the full wrath of University Hall can be called upon a student whose offense may seem to hardly worth even a rebuke...
...replied: "Why? There's nothing wrong with it. The only place it's going is somewhere up in the Agriculture Department." Said Jackson: "Everybody thought he was such a Christian gentleman, and with his wide reputation, I made the mistake of believing him." After adding a mild warning that he had not made a complete audit of Estes' holdings, Jackson obediently put the statement on his stationery, sent it back to Estes-and a week later got a check for $6,000. After Estes was arrested, Jackson destroyed his copies of the balance sheet at the request...
...veil came off with the parley's first agreement on a specific hurdle: Britain proposed to abandon Commonwealth preferential tariffs on a list of 400 manufactured goods it normally imports from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. In a mild spirit of compromise, the Europeans agreed to apply the tariff cuts in slow stages, postpone the final cutoff date until 1970. So far as the Common Market Six were concerned, it was a small first step, but experts now detected a new suppleness in the hitherto stiff French position. Delighted at the way things were going, Ted Heath tentatively declared...
...reaction was mild compared with that of the public. The proposed cathedral was said to look like a factory, an apartment building, an auditorium, a "cross between a supercinema and a slaughterhouse"-almost everything except a cathedral. Spence immediately received 700 letters, mostly abusive. While construction was held up for 2∧ years of arguing, he received no other commissions, recalls now, "I went almost bankrupt." Finally, in July 1954, the building was started...
...dear sir," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once scolded him, "you are trying to live out of your century. Your body is suffering from remorse of spirit." It was Kazantzakis' belief that only through soul-searing struggle could man approach God. To his eye, the Francis of legend was too mild to be a saint. In his retelling, he endows the saint with a human vulnerability that gives Francis a new universality...