Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prick me, do I not bleed?" asked Shakespearean Richard Burton, 38, paraphrasing Shylock. Burton does, frighteningly, for as he explained in Manhattan last week, he has suffered all his life from a mild form of "bleeder's disease," or hemophilia. Recently recruited by the National Hemophilia Foundation, he announced the formation of a Richard Burton Hemophilia Fund, with Wife Liz as chairman, to aid research on the disease...
...example, 21-year-old Edward Wong, a B-plus graduate from Chicago's Loyola University, had interviews with eight companies but elected to go to law school. Negro students have traditionally opted for such sheltered fields as teaching, government and social work, where discrimination has been relatively mild. As for business, Negroes have felt-with justification-that their opportunities would be severely limited...
Salinger received a mild reception. The former White House press secretary, now the Democratic candidate for the Senate from California, defended the Kennedy Administration press policy on Vietnam...
...cleaning plant). There he praised his reception as "nonracial, nontribal and purely Zambian." Then the Black Lion, who has shrewdly raised the pay of his soldiers and police to discourage dissension like that which jarred East Africa, made clear that he can be as tough as he is mild-mannered. Said he, addressing himself to his country's often troublesome trade unions, and by implication to all future Zambians: "This government is strong and here to stay. I do not want to hear any more nonsense from anyone...
...Baptist delegates approved their church's strongest stand yet on civil rights. Their resolution advocated withholding church loans to segregated Baptist congregations, and putting fair-employment-practice clauses in all contracts between churches and builders. But the Southern Baptists, about 90% of whose congregations are segregated, rejected even mild, nonbinding recommendations that would approve an open-door policy on race in churches. Instead, the delegates adopted a policy statement that left the question of church integration right where it has always been: up to the decision of individual congregations...