Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suleyman Demirel, 42, swept to power 14 months ago, his victory was credited largely to Turkey's growing disdain for the eager flirtation with Russia carried on by his chief opponent, foxy former Premier Ismet Inönü, 83. In recent months, however, Demirel has begun some mild flirting of his own. He has received Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev, sent official delegations to Poland, Russia and Albania. Last week Demirel welcomed his biggest Communist visitor yet: Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, the first Russian Premier ever to visit Turkey...
While a special committee was preparing to study the demands, young Communist students staged two days of mild downtown demonstrations. Then full-scale street riots suddenly erupted on Dec. 3. Chanting "Kill the Portuguese devils!", some 3,000 Red Guard-style demonstrators smashed store windows, tipped over every car in sight, pulled down statues, and sacked Macao's City Hall. The next day-early last week-5,000 took to the streets, and before order was restored eight were dead. At week's end De Carvalho had accepted the five demands and Macao was calm again, though...
Still, the local cattle were getting sick in increasing numbers, and Brewis did have some mild symptoms. "I felt groggy and thought I was getting the flu," he said. "When the doctor examined me, he found some blisters on my hands and in my mouth. I was banged into a hospital at Newcastle for a week, but there was nothing much the matter with me." Nor was there anything much the doctors could do. There is no effective treatment for the viral disease, but nature's own healing power soon cured Brewis...
...form of government. Last week they did that, and did it peacefully. In a quiet, orderly referendum, the country's 1,200,000 voters decided to return to a single, one-man .presidency. The new President is Oscar Gestido, 65, a scrupulously honest, mild-mannered ex-Air Force general whose liberal Colorado Party swept into power for the first time in eight years...
...Grimble suffered a mild concussion in Tuesday's practice, stamping last year's familiar question mark on defense plans. If Grimble can't play, Weiland will probably use Tag Demment, a defenseman last year who has played wing much of this season. There is also the possibility that Smith, an All-Ivy defenseman last season, will be moved back should the ranks thin any more...