Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mild-mannered Justice Harry...
...fire breather, he begins his 25-minute sermon by telling a few mild, clerical jokes and asking the congregation to take a deep, tension-easing breath: "Relax-give yourself over to God." Like Norman Vincent Peale, he spends more time analyzing modern ills than expounding theology, his chatty sermons are lightened by references to such contemporary phenomena as booing cricket umpires, which he deplores, and cosmetics, which he endorses ("God made women beautiful, and they should develop this talent"). When he recently took his text from the Sermon on the Mountain"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit...
...recent report of his committee's work, Vorenberg leveled mild criticism at the city. He asked that "the city take more responsibility in recognizing the problem Cambridge has in the civil rights area and in seeking ways to eliminate the sources of these problems rather than finding expedients to deal with the symptoms when they become visible or vocal...
After the police caught Weissman by tracing his license number, a grand jury indicted him for first-degree murder, vehicular homicide, and leaving the scene of an accident. Yet last week Eddie Weissman got off with only a mild sentence for second-degree manslaughter...
...believe these distortions and falsehoods you read," he tells his audiences. He brands Kennedy's the "most reprehensible campaign that has ever been conducted for the Senate in this state." Keating's manner, usually mild and totally lacking in flamboyance, changes as he lists his opponent's sins: he pumps his arms up and down in small chops and his voice rises in anger...