Word: milde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrations were mild compared with the "White Night Riot," in which 124 were injured when White was convicted only of voluntary manslaughter in 1979. The jury accepted what came to be known as the "Twinkies defense...
...years of military rule and a civil war that had taken at least 1 million lives, the nation known as the "African Giant" had in 1979 painstakingly embarked on its second attempt at democratic government, this time under a federal constitution closely modeled on that of the U.S. The mild-mannered Shagari, a Muslim from the north and a former schoolteacher, had been elected President and re-elected last August, winning 47% of the popular vote and at least 25% of the ballots in 16 of the country's 19 states...
Under the mild satire, the book suffices well enough as a how-to guide for aspiring Yuppies from the provinces who desperately want to avoid appearing gauche in the big city. Having it both ways probably means that the authors will achieve a cardinal Yuppie goal: an income in six figures...
...pink flowers ... that blondes give out when they sweat." For the child's seducer, even the surrounding countryside seems suffused with his desire: "I was listening to the noise of the wind which ... was sobbing under the doors and bringing us through the open windows-it was very mild-a poignant smell from the terrace outside-the smell of dampness before rain, of flowers when the season of flowers is over...
...Soviets concluded that they had been wrong about him. Americans often remark that Reagan's bark has been worse than his bite. After all, he lifted the embargo that Carter had clamped on U.S. grain sales to the Soviet Union following the invasion of Afghanistan and proposed only mild and ineffectual economic sanctions in response to the imposition of martial law in Poland. But the Soviets have come to take Reagan at his word. Says a Kremlin specialist on American affairs: "With Carter, it was always interesting to read a speech and say, 'Aha, [former Secretary of State Cyrus] Vance...