Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss dropped Harvard's Ivy record to 1-1 and dealt a mild blow to its Ivy hopes. The Crimson had forseen Princeton and Dartmouth--the victim of Harvard's first contest--as its toughest opposition...
Goode shrugs off such mild taunts and ignores uglier ones. Goode says that in Philadelphia, unlike Chicago (where bitter racial overtones preceded Harold Washington's victory), the fact that he is black is unimportant in the campaign. "I think I've transcended race by focusing on the issues," he asserts...
...high chair and onto the Louis Quinze. He ransacks old collections and ranges through the century, from Stephen Leacock to Fran Lebowitz. Anything that smacks of adolescence is jettisoned: "You will meet with no Dorothy Parker here... I found her comic stories brittle, short on substance." And nothing mild is allowed: to go through Robert Benchley's work is "to discover a good many of his sketches astonishingly bland, disarmingly gentle." The 65 pieces that pass Richler's scrutiny are trenchant, acrimonious and sharp. Most of them are also funny. But they are no more mature than...
...slammed to the floor a packet of materials assembled by Helms, proclaiming it "filth." New Jersey Democrat Bill Bradley voiced openly a common suspicion that Helms was trying to inflame racial antagonism in order to win white votes in his re-election campaign next year. Helms, said the normally mild-mannered Bradley, "is playing up to old Jim Crow and all of us know...
...goal win in a row now gives them a 7-5 overall record and marks the first time this year that they are two game above 500. But less than 20 minutes into yesterday's showdown., it looked as if the visiting Rams were on their way to a mild upset...