Word: mild
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Even after an unusually mild winter, the return of spring to North America feels like a blessing. Parents are dragging their toddlers to the park. Students are dusting off their Frisbees. And bird watchers, armed with binoculars and guidebooks, are heading out to search for their favorite species...
...mild-mannered Cochran seemed a bit frustrated with Coburn's tactics last week, and that's not unusual. Coburn's habit of going down to the Senate floor and ridiculing projects his colleagues want funding for is "annoying" to some of them, says Mel Martinez, a Republican from Florida. Alaska's Ted Stevens threatened to resign from the Senate if it supported Coburn's drive to cut the "Bridge to Nowhere" from last year's budget, and Coburn won only 15 votes for the provision. But while his victories are rare and the ire from his colleagues high, Coburn says...
...modern standards, very mild. In movies with explicitly descriptive catalog titles (Hobbled in Kid Leather Harness), a woman will be tied up, or ball-gagged, or put in the trunk of a car. For a change, Bettie shared the screen with another woman, usually Roz Greenwood - the star couldn't put herself in bondage. But the performers never got hurt; at times you can catch them giggling at the indignities they were asked to portray. If there's kink it's pure nostalgia. Kids today, seeing these (and they do), probably think it's kinky that their grandfathers thought...
...right, or even that simple? Pain and disability have a pernicious way of becoming true even if they start out false. My patient Eddy was in a car accident in the last several years. When he saw me soon after the accident, my examination showed he had a mild finger and knee sprain, but no bruising or swelling. All of his x-rays and MRI's were essentially normal. Eddy walked with a ridiculously fake limp and a cane, when he remembered...
...every Whole Foods store, delight comes in the form of the pervading smell of freshly ground and brewed organic coffee (Whole Foods owns the beanery), the informative and amusing handcrafted wooden signs (PARMIGIANO-REGGIANO: THIS RAW MILD CHEESE IS THE FIRST ALL-NATURAL FOOD IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM SELECTED TO GO ON THE SPACE STATION) and, most conspicuously, from the rolling hills of Argentinean blueberries, heirloom tomatoes, Moro oranges and luscious produce, which seem to go on forever, even spilling out the door and into the parking lot in some locations...