Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind this action lies a growing disillusionment with Miltown on the part of many doctors. Some doubt that it has any more tranquilizing effect than a dummy sugar pill; others think that it is really a mild sedative that works no better than older and cheaper drugs, such as the barbiturates. A few physicians have reported that in some patients Miltown may cause a true addiction, followed by withdrawal symptoms like those of narcotics users "kicking the habit...
...year-old man. After only a mouthwash sort of anesthesia, Dr. Cahan froze the surface of the cancer. Later he inserted the liquid nitrogen probe deep into the tissue. In each of three required operations, the tissues were frozen and allowed to thaw. The patient complained of only a mild burning sensation that lasted a few hours after each treatment. In three weeks, the cancer shrank to the size of a small...
...article says that businessmen have traditionally criticized Harvard's economics department as "infiltrated by anti-business radicals ... [but] actually, faculty members are far from radical." The magazine also notes, that "Even Galbraith seems mild today," citing his claim that he is having trouble just trying to maintain his reputation as a liberal...
...this has nicely enriched life for Istanbul-born, Brooklyn-reared Bernie Cornfeld, a mild-mannered bachelor of 37 who does not look as if he would ever talk back to his boss. He drives a Lancia Flaminia convertible, sails a 42-ft. Corsair, owns a ski lodge and a castle in France and lives in a lavish villa in suburban Geneva with two Great Danes and a Chinese houseman. He decorates his penthouse office with red silk Empire furnishings and swarms of attractive, multilingual secretaries, trains and entertains his worldwide force of 2,000 salesmen with everything from art lectures...
...antagonisms they express. The continent's greatest single cause of turmoil is not the struggle for food or political power but simple-and not so simple-hatred among peoples, classes, races. The U.S. is deeply and rightly troubled by its own problems of racial discrimination. They are mild compared with Asia's endemic and murderous grudges, and America's problems are subject to a system of social and legal redress that, tragically, most of Asia lacks. The Asian paradox is haunting: on the one hand the brooding, jewel-eyed idols from which flows a spirit of contemplation...