Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Researcher Beecher found that sugar pills work one-third of the time in treating conditions ranging from headache and seasickness to wound pain. Levine and Fields of U.C.S.F. have reported that a placebo was capable of mimicking the effect of four to six milligrams of morphine, a mild dose, in patients suffering the pain of tooth extractions. U.C.S.F. researchers have also shown that the placebo effect is partly due to the stimulation of the body's endorphin system. When the action of endorphins is inhibited (by using a powerful opiate-blocking agent), placebos may not work...
...script is perhaps overplotted and has heavy expository burdens (again the analogy with real opera occurs). Moviegoers whose emotional connection to the Star Trek mythos is mild may find themselves missing the self-satire that distinguished Star Trek II. They may also find them selves wondering occasionally if, after 79 television episodes and two features, the series is finally about to succumb to what has always been its besetting temptation, which is portentousness...
...been a worse one. A century ago, most educated people drew as a matter of course because it was the best way to remember what they saw. Great Aunt Lucinda with her watercolor set, earnestly dabbling in the shade of the Duomo, may have been a figure of mild fun; but she (multiplied by tens of thousands) was also the ground from which the tremendous graphic achievements of a Degas or a Matisse could rise. Such amateur experience added up to a general recognition that to draw, to reconstitute a motif as a code of lines and tonal patches...
...TISA, like an incantation. On the first warm days of spring there would be the usual "spring riots" on the part of high-spirited undergraduates, who threw rolls of toilet paper out the windows of their ancient dormitories in the Yard, or snake-danced through the Square--mild stuff by modern standards but considered pretty far out for the times. The Cambridge Police looked on with a certain amount of benevolence and left the nabbing to the college "cops." And late in the spring, during the "reading period," the Harvard Glee Club used to give concerts in the early evening...
...dean of Radcliffe, to be chauffeur-companion for her husband. George Pierce Baker, creator of Harvard's legendary 47 Workshop where O'Neill, Behrman, Woffe. Barry and other dramatists students, and founder of the Yale Department of the Drama Mr. Baker (he loathed being called "doctor") had had a mild stroke and needed someone to putter in the garden with him and take him on occasional drives through the mountains from his country home in Silver Lake New Hampshire...