Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second serious setback to his failing health in eight months; Earl Mountbatten, 63, Chief of the British Defense staff, in London's King Edward VIIs Hospital for Officers, after an operation for a hernia; Sportscaster Red Barber, 56, in Emporia, Va.'s Greensville Memorial Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell in his bathroom, while trying to fix a loose cabinet, and struck the back of his head...
...working executive whose In basket never seems to be empty, one practical rule of thumb is that anything mailed to him free is probably not worth reading. But there is one giveaway magazine that has sought, with mild success, to be an exception. In seven years, News Front, which calls itself "management's news magazine," has at least gained entree to some of the most influential In baskets in the U.S. Among its 92,000 nonpaying recipients are the presidents and key officers of the country's 7,500 largest companies, the Governors of all 50 states...
...Bromberg. According to Schafer, Ruby has an IQ of 109-meaning that he tests higher in intelligence than 73% of the population. But he also suffers from brain damage that results in a kind of epilepsy which produces blackouts and loss of self-control. "There were frequent occasions of mild confusion," said Schafer, describing the 9½-hour series of tests that he gave Ruby. "His speech was loose. Some statements were almost incoherent. His perception of some test items was grossly distorted. Some of the ideas he entertained were peculiar and inappropriate, with elements of absurdity...
...show that he didn't dislike Barry. Then, last week, there came that bit of Percy luck. Carpentier withdrew from the contest on account of illness. Suffering from what he thought was an old stomach ailment, Carpentier entered a hospital, was told that he had had a mild heart attack. Even though State Treasurer William Scott, 37, then jumped into the race, Chuck Percy now was clearly running well ahead...
...question. But it was a victory for anarchy, and no one was more aware of that fact than Nyerere. He emerged nervous and shamefaced at midweek to tour his torn capital, found himself unable even to reprimand his cocky army for fear of a new revolt. The mustachioed, mild-mannered ex-schoolteacher had been proud that in the 17-year-struggle for Tanganyikan independence not a single life had been lost. Now he said sadly: "It will take months and even years to erase from the mind of the world what it has heard about the events this week...