Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scholar & Snake. The election made good the promise of Prime Minister Sadik el Mahdi, 31, who has called for a national reconciliation with the deceptively simple slogan: "Pacification with persuasion." A mild Oxford scholar, Sadik last July replaced Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, who chose to discourage the rebellious Anya Nya (named for the poison of the black Mamba snake) with retaliatory raids on southern villages. Instead, Sadik established "peace villages" where tribesmen intimidated by the Anya Nya could live under the protection of his troops. In quiet, unemotional tones, the world's second youngest head of government (Burundi...
...mild-mannered sophomore Barry Johnson got into a tussle with Ferguson and Harry Orr, probably the two dirtiest players in the East. The Crimson sophomore emerged with a fiveminute sentence for slashing matched against Orr's similar penalty for buttending...
...Morocco itself, Hassan's expansive ambitions have a better chance. Shortly after he came to the throne, he called in International Monetary Fund experts to help him stabilize the nation's finances, and the result has been a reform in tax collection, wiser government spending and a mild austerity program that has allowed him to build a modest foreign currency reserve. Realizing the value of the tourist dollar, he has promoted a series of resort hotels from Tangier to Marrakesh, turned Morocco into the haunting ground of such jet-set types as Truman Capote and Princess Lee Radziwill...
Take the pole vault, for instance. Not only did Pete Lazarus win with a meet record leap of 14 ft., but Steve Schoonover and Dave Bell were right behind in second and third. Lazarus's mild upset over Schoonover marked the third consecutive Greater Boston vault win for the Crimson...
...foundations established at Chicago by Harper gave the university an enviable reputation as an outstanding center of graduate instruction and research. The Hutchins' era provoked a mild educational revolution which aroused excitement and suspicion. The University of Chicago is now trying to maintain both of these traditions at a time when, pressured by neighborhood problems and capital needs, the demand for educational greatness is mounting...