Word: mild
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bradley has himself succumbed to the fever and called for mild tax cuts, but his equally heavily financed campaign is basically resting on his hoop fame and a strong belief that the new right cannot take on labor and the liberals in an industrial state and win. He's probably right...
...that Georg Orwell described so brilliantly 35 years ago. Alter's hero feels a similar sense of class and cultural instability as those Orwell less charitably referred to as half-breeds. At the start of the book he seduces a young Hindu woman, is caught and beaten to a mild pulp by her rather boorish brothers, and banished by his embarrassed family to the hinterlands. At this point the book begins to pick up in quality while maintaining its rather laconic tempo...
...Yankelovich, Skelly and White over a four-day period ending Oct. 8. The poll does not indicate any overwhelming sense of national anxiety. When asked a general question - "How do you feel that things are going in the country these days?" - 50% were willing to answer with a mild "fairly well" (only 5% thought things were going "very well"). Fully 76% felt the future would eventually bring prosperity, and 40% thought that their own standard of living would get better during the next year or two. Republicans and Westerners tended to be the most pessimistic; Carter supporters and those under...
Although all students so far have mild cases, "the matter is under intenseive investigation," Postel said. Investigators are using "common epidemiological procedure" by examining food service workers to try to trace the sources of the poisoning, he said...
...write serious stuff, but not about food," Trillin says, smiling, while in Cambridge recently to publicize his sixth book. With mild eyes the color of swimming pools and a moderate waistline, in person he hardly seems the insatiate food ogre of his books. "I take on a persona as a glutton in my food books," he explains shyly...