Word: mild
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...their hostility, both Poland and Yugoslavia have profited handsomely from U.S. aid. Since 1957, when the Eisenhower Administration decided to assist Gomulka in his mild revolt against Stalinism, the U.S. has sold Poland $365 million worth of surplus agricultural commodities (paid for in zlotys, which can be used by the U.S. only in Poland itself), extended $61 million for machinery. In the past decade, Yugoslavia has received at least $1.5 billion in U.S. grants, plus $250 million worth of credits...
...Fort Worth's Carter Blood Center complaining of weakness. Physicians found that he had hemochromatosis-a rare condition caused by excessive iron absorption through the intestines into the blood. Some of the iron had deposited in Parker's liver and pancreas, contributing to cirrhosis and a mild case of diabetes...
Career's End. De Sapio's forebodings were well taken. Election Day was pleasantly mild-just the sort of weather to attract voters-and colorless Candidate Levitt's chances rested on a small turnout, in which his organization support might be decisive. More than 743,000 voters, a record for a Democratic primary in New York City, swarmed to the polls. They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt...
Still, in a land plagued by incompetent bureaucrats, primitive economics and armed bands of political insurgents, even the mild measure that U Nu has pushed through could be a source of irritation. Keenly aware of the danger is Burma's politically powerful army, which took over the government briefly three years ago to prevent civil war, is now a major prop of U Nu's parliamentary democracy. Says Brigadier General Aung Gyi, 41, chief of operations and one of the army's most powerful officers: "The state-religion bill has aroused the suspicion of the minorities. Only...
...knife." The article was directed at "the thousands of women who spend millions of dollars each year hopefully trying to regain the facial appearance of their more youthful days." For $1,000 they could have a two-week stay at the Budkon Center in Westport, Conn., where a mild burning with buffered carbolic acid would wipe away sagging skin, wrinkles, freckles, acne scars, and the troubled look of middle age-all under the supervision of a former professor of dermatology...