Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even as Johnson showed signs of growing obduracy on Viet Nam and hinted that he might raise the level of fighting (see THE WORLD), Humphrey has been moving slowly toward the position of critics like Eugene McCarthy. Goaded by McCarthy last week, he took mild issue with the Saigon government's five-year jail sentence for Truong Dinh Dzu, the peace candidate and runner-up in last year's presidential election, who advocated negotiation with the Viet Cong. Humphrey hinted, delicately, that he might even agree with Dzu. "What I'm saying," he declared, "is that...
...some, such as Wayne Peeler, from Pittsburgh, the question of subtle racism at Harvard is, "null..It's like asking, 'Does the weather exist?' It's a matter of degree, sometimes it's stormy, sometimes it's mild, but you know it's there...
...friendly greetings in the street and hear the plea "Help us win the war." In the villages, shouts of "Nno!" (Welcome) are accompanied by the traditional offer of a cup of palm wine, still in plentiful supply. With that, the host will usually break open a kola nut-a mild stimulant that helps stifle hunger...
...contrast, the ecclesiastical statements of the council seemed mild and almost irrelevant. The document on worship, for example, suggested that there should be changes in language, vestments and ceremonies in order to make prayer services more intelligible. Ecumenically, the council took a major step forward by issuing, for the first time, an open invitation to the Roman Catholic Church to join the World Council. Although theologians recognize the practical problems that would be involved if Catholics should become mem bers of the council, churchmen active in Christian-unity proposals have long considered the prospect inevitable. Hardly an eyebrow was raised...
...average of four mice per plant, the mouse population runs to well over 2,000 per acre. Fighting back against such hungry hordes, the farmers have resorted to aerial "bombing" of the fields with oats coated with a poison (zinc phosphide) that is strong enough to kill mice, too mild to hurt other wildlife. In one "Kill Mouse Day" last week, planes swooped down and dropped 46,000 lbs. of poisoned oats, which left countless casualties on the surface, others in their burrows...