Word: milde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confirmed at least two cases of the misnamed Russian flu (it actually erupted first in China last May, then spread across the steppes of Soviet Asia). A children's hospital in Memphis has confirmed another. In the majority of cases so far reported, the flu has been relatively mild with many patients recovering in three or four days. At the service academies, the cadets and middies, thanks to their generally topnotch condition, suffered lighter attacks and were making quicker recoveries than would a random sample of average citizens...
CHUL's student members met the night before to draft what they considered a very mild and non-controversial statement praising the Harvard-Radcliffe Constitutional Convention for re-examining the effectiveness of student government at Harvard...
...junior high school teacher in the Philadelphia school system for the past three years, I have been assaulted four times-three times by parents or older siblings. I have suffered bruised ribs, fingernail lacerations and a mild concussion...
...experience, and I speak only from my experience, women seem stronger and more stable, men more brilliant and devoted; then again, in my family, the women have always managed the financial affairs and directed the family, often holding the jobs, if anyone did. The men were very mild, very gentle sorts, quiet, often depressed, barely there, but always charming and witty. It worked very well, and I am still in awe of the iron hand with which my grandmother ruled my grandfather. The moral of this, I suppose, is that among the vast numbers of humans on the globe...
Take Bea Leaguered, for example, a mild-mannered office worker and the heroine of a skit put on by "The 9to5 Players" at a fund-raiser in Boston last week. She is oppressed again and again by wicked bosses. One day her friends take pity on her and present her with a membership in 9to5. Phoenix-like, she rises up out of the typing pool to defeat one discriminatory employer after another--Macho Mutual Insurance Company, Arrogant Women-Proof Publishers, First Bigoted Bank of Boston, Neanderthal University. Will the work of the noble Ms. Leaguered ever be done...