Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Embarrassing Outburst. Red response to the toughening U.S. position was relatively mild. In Peking a French newsman asked Communist Chinese officials if they were still thinking of sending troops to Viet Nam. He was told: "This form of intervention is no longer necessary." In Moscow the Communist Parties of 19 nations gathered to talk about repairing their badly chipped bloc, predictably condemned the U.S. for "barbarous" behavior but issued no call for action. Some 2,000 so-called "students"-mostly Asians-unleashed an unbridled attack on the U.S. Embassy, and the Soviet government obviously was embarrassed at the necessity...
...President Johnson can be counted upon to continue to work with complete dedication on this problem." Idaho's fuzzy-cheeked Democratic Senator Frank Church, who had been making a lot of headlines with his calls for withdrawal, got the word from Lyndon, now retorted ferociously to a relatively mild propaganda speech by Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. Cried Church: "Kosygin calls not for talks but for surrender. He will never get that from the United States...
While Corps officials view the substantial drop with only mild concern, some observers here fear that the Peace Corps' early success at Harvard and Radcliffe may have been only a meeting phenomenon...
...John F. Enders (TIME Cover, Nov. 17, 1961), but new research has added many advantages. When the attenuated virus in Enders' vaccine remained strong enough to give the required immunity, it was also strong enough to give many children what amounted to a slight case of measles, with a mild rash and some fever. A later vaccine made with killed virus took two or three injections to build immunity of uncertain length. Doctors' preferences varied between giving a shot of the live vaccine with a shot of gamma globulin to reduce side effects, or giving one or more shots...
Medical Sciences: A mild form of neuropathology which could be alleviated by a balanced diet...