Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather in his native Natal is usually mild and sunny this time of year, but as Albert John Luthuli strolled along the streets of Oslo last week in a temperature of 14° F., an inner glow kept him comfortable. Said South Africa's Luthuli. the former Zulu chief who was in Oslo to receive the delayed 1960 Nobel Peace Prize: "I do not feel the cold because I am meeting so many warmhearted people...
...Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, only 7,813 diehard fans showed up to watch mild-mannered Champion Floyd Patterson initiate Challenger Tom McNeeley into his "Bum of the Year" club. A pug-nosed, ex-Michigan State footballer who once visited a psychiatrist to get his "viciousness" cured, McNeeley butted, elbowed, and threw four low punches in a row. Before he was finally counted out at 2 min. 51 sec. of the fourth round, McNeeley had hit the canvas eleven times (two were ruled "slips" by Referee Jersey Joe Walcott), sported a nearly closed eye and a raw strawberry that...
...Counts? It is the very young and defenseless who seem to get the worst shake from the tot-book people. No sensitive pre-Dewey adult could read some of these first "reading aids" without revulsion, and to read a number of them produces an effect of mild narcolepsy. Many have been clearly influenced by the notorious "look-say" teaching method, and if a large percentage of children under eight can barely read, the reason could be that what they are permitted to read is witless and dull. Probably the safest rule for the adult buyer is to avoid any book...
...hasn't missed a trick yet." Neither the acceleration of the roaring ascent nor weightlessness in orbit seemed to bother the meditative chimp. When colored lights appeared in little windows above his couch, he pressed the levers which, as he had been taught, would keep him from suffering mild electric shocks. Over Australia and over the Pacific, the lights appeared as scheduled, and Enos, performing properly, got no shocks. He was reported by Mexico at 11:34 and by Canaveral at 11:41. He completed his first orbit in one hour, 28.5 min. His heartbeat (105-120), respiration...
...many children, the vaccine causes something like a mild case of measles. A rash similar to measles has been noted, but more alarming a first was the frequent occurrence of a fever...