Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describe Jordan as one of Israel's "least aggressive neighbors." I was not aware that there were degrees of aggression, some worthy of condemnation, others to be countenanced due to their mildness. Even if this were true, Jordan, jumping-off place for the terrorist Palestine Liberation Front, is far from being a mild aggressor...
...through the five-day trial. The other 55 smeared the silicone grease on their feet every 24 hours; some of them also wore silicone-treated socks. Of these men, not one had to drop out because of immersion foot; only six of them developed it, and theirs were mild cases...
...Fashion. Despite the lusty tone of much of his verse, Masefield was a gentle, mild-mannered man who thought of himself as primarily a storyteller. He was a craftsman who turned out some 70 books, including 28 of poetry, 14 novels and the rest biographies, histories and comparatively undistinguished plays. The bestialities of World War I made the romance and optimism of his work go out of fashion, for that era brought the onslaught of symbolism, Freudian introspection, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Masefield thought of his laureate role as "a happy duty," though such eminences as Dame Edith...
...important difference was that no matter how it was given, children with eczema had less fever and even fewer severe reactions than normal children who got the standard shot. In 1,409 test vaccinations, only two children developed allergic complications, and they were mild and short-lived. Of the test subjects, 300 were later given the legally required shot of standard calf vaccine. Apparently preconditioned, not one suffered ill effects...
Half a dozen or so central characters, wearing both the blue and the grey, move forward to the conflict. On the Confederate side, the standouts are General Forrest, a bombastic, semiliterate slave trader who leads a ferocious cavalry charge, and Captain Hamilton LeRoy Acox, a mild Georgian who, though weary of war, wields a mighty sword in a lunatic moment at Fort Pillow...