Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...milk, and bedtime was before 11 p.m. In the past year, Saud kept two full-time doctors by his side; he suffered from assorted ills, including kidney and liver trouble, serious rheumatism and severely impaired eyesight, which forced him to wear dark glasses. Early in February, he had a mild heart attack, and his death was caused by a second such seizure...
Some of the charges put to Freudianism are thoroughly familiar: that it is an expensive, timeconsuming, highly selective form of therapy, which admits only those patients who suffer from the relatively mild ailments that analysis has a plausible chance of curing. To therapists concerned with the vast volume of mental illness that needs to be treated, write Psychologists Hans H. Strupp and Allen E. Bergin in a study for the National Institute of Mental Health, "a little, but significant, change for a lot of people is seen as preferable to protracted efforts to produce large-scale changes...
First-time parietal violations are now being handled by the Masters and senior tutors in each House, and punishment can be no harsher than a mild reprimand...
...inflammatory campus slogans, the message on the red-and-white buttons being passed out at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week seemed mild enough. Yet it symbolized the emergence of what may well be the most specialized protest group in the academic world today: university scientists and engineers...
Slurps and Glugs. Kerr keeps the kitchen asmoke with naughty innuendoes. The Chinese, he notes, considered parsley stalks a mild aphrodisiac, but he finds that "you need a bushel to really get you cracking." Twice within a few days, he observed during the closing segment of the show: "There are two things a man can still do for a woman [pregnant pause]. The other one is to carve the roast on Sunday...