Word: mildered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KENTUCKY Mint-Flavored Mickey Kentucky's Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby exhibited truly remarkable restraint last week in the face of provocation calculated to send him and his state's entire electorate into at least the milder manifestations of apoplexy: the Vicksburg Chamber of Commerce not only claimed that the mint julep was originated in Mississippi, but that Kentuckians never heard of it until both the recipe and the mint had been transplanted there by a bourbon-drinking boatman. But though Kentucky's governor spoke softly, he did not fail to slip Mississippi a mickey...
Bill's most impressive characteristic is his calm. He moves with accurate grace, and his nerves work like a telephone exchange that never gets a wrong number. He never gets excited, never blows up. He almost never uses even the milder cuss words...
...quiet, methodical career diplomat of the old school, handed Israel a note that was diplomatic but plain. The U.S., it said, is deeply concerned over the recent Israeli forays over the border, and it could only conclude that they are inspired by calculated Israeli policy. A similar but much milder note of caution was handed to the Jordanians...
...thick and 35 in. long, attached to a 20-in. handle. The cat was applied across the bare back-in recent times, in the presence of a doctor-after neck and kidneys had been protected against permanent injury. Maximum number of strokes for civilian offenders: 50. A milder alternative ordered by judges was the birch, a yard-long bundle of twigs, soaked" in water and whacked across bare buttocks...
Mice & Men. Nobody knows how growing children and adults get the disease (mice are suspected of transmitting it), or why some victims get an acute infection while others have a milder form, often localized in the eyes. Pathologist Helenor Campbell Wilder presented positive data to the experts in Galveston: in 53 cases where a supposedly tuberculous eye had been removed, toxoplasmosis was found. Victims were 14 to 83 years old; some had had symptoms only a few weeks, others as long as 32 years...