Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the mild riot, Cambridge and University police allowed the students to roam almost at will. When the crowds congregated on Memorial Drive, University officials and police futilely attempted to keep traffic moving. In Harvard Square just before midnight. Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan deployed about 15 men, and with the cooperation of Harvard police, made a serious effort to disperse the crowds...
...Soviets, Red Chinese and Cubans reacted with howls about imperialist aggression. In a shrill May Day speech, Castro called the U.S. landing "one of the most criminal and humiliating actions of this century." The comment from the rest of Latin America was surprisingly mild. Few of the expected mobs materialized to hurl rocks at U.S. embassies. Chile's President Eduardo Frei and Venezuela's Raúl Leoni issued public statements deploring the U.S. landings. But privately, many Latin American statesmen admitted the necessity for quick U.S. action. Some even went on record about it. Mexico...
...Subterraneans or The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is remembered as a likable literary wild man, a frightener of librarians, a pie-eyed piper for young men with no socks. Perhaps because socklessness no longer seems the major menace (the young are activists now, not beatniks), Kerouac, at 43, appears mild and gentle. The effectiveness of Kerouac's prose is as erratic as before, but the woozy mid-sentence plunges from eloquence to incompetence are no longer embarrassing. It is understood-theses are written on the subject-that Kerouac refuses to rewrite on principle, and the indulgent reader is willing...
Ellis Speath's victory in the pole vault was a mild surprise. The Crimson's Dave Bell just couldn't find the range, and Speath stole first place at a piddling...
...trouble with many live-virus vaccines is that the viruses of which they are made multiply in the body in such away as to cause illness. As a result, some measles vaccines produce what seems like a mild case of measles; some polio vaccines may make the vaccinee infectious to others. Virologists have long sought a way to deliver the live (though possibly weakened) virus of a vaccine into a part of the body where it will cause neither symptoms nor infection, but will still do its job of triggering antibody formation...