Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cameron Highlands of Malaysia, 140 miles north of Kuala Lumpur at an elevation of 5,000 ft., is one of Southeast Asia's most fetching health resorts. Its climate is mild by day and cool by night, and its lush vegetation includes thick jungles, clouds of brilliant flowers and mile after mile of tea plantations. There last week on vacation went one of Southeast Asia's best-known businessmen, American James Thompson, 61. Tired from a round of business, which included the opening in Bangkok three weeks ago of a new, two-story headquarters for his $1.5 million...
...economic progress, competition as the supreme law of economics, and private ownership of the means of production as an absolute right that has no limits and carries no corresponding social obligation." By contrast, there was little said about the dangers and evils of socialism or Communism, except for a mild warning that Christians should be wary of systems that are "based upon a materialistic and atheistic philosophy...
...first the drug worked well. Several days after a woman stopped taking it, she had what seemed like a normal but mild menstrual period. There were few side effects. But as the drug was further purified, Dr. Rock began to hear patients complain of too much "breakthrough bleeding" in mid-cycle. Analysis showed that the purified drug contained no detectable estrogen. Apparently estrogen, even in the most minute quantity, prevented some side effects, including unwanted bleeding. So when Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co., which had worked closely with Pincus and Rock, began making "the Pincus pills" as Enovid...
...progestin (with a protective smidgen of estrogen added) for five or six days. The sequentials, like the combinations, tend to regularize the cycle, and most women who take them have an acceptably mild menstrual period...
...comparable deal with Chrysler. But Hartke has been a leader in the drive to force safety devices upon U.S. automakers. A legislator would have to be exceptionally malleable-or poor-to be seriously swayed by such amenities. What they can and do create is a climate of friendliness and mild obligation-but that, after all, is the essence of politics as well as public relations...