Word: mildered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back in London, he explored the milder forms of French impressionism, adopted what suited him. It was the English countryside and seashore that suited him best...
Fortunately, the disease was taking a far milder form than in Paris' big outbreak in 1892, when there were 16 deaths among 51 cases. Most recent victims thought they had nothing more serious than influenza; the only deaths have been among elderly invalids. Even so, Lepine's report fluttered the dovecots of the Ministry of Health...
...bench to sentence sullen Morton Sobell, because of his "lesser degree of implication," to 30 years. Next day, Judge Kaufman sentenced David Greenglass, the ex-Army sergeant who had fed atomic secrets to the Rosenbergs and whose testimony had convicted his sister and brother-in-law, to a milder 15 years because of his help to the Government...
...have three 52 second quarter millers to match with its fleet anchor man, Irv Howe, who won the accollade of the evening by turning in a 49.3 leg Saturday night at the Garden's Knights of Columbus meet. A half hour later Harvard's Ronnie Berman received a slightly milder ovation for anchoring the Crimson to a half-step win over-come a 15-yard deficit and catch Yale's Rollie Sultze and Dartmouth's Dave Krivitzky to do it. His time...
...upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"), she caught the popular ear, tasted fame. In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize and married Eugen Jan Boissevain, a wealthy importer. As her fame and royalties grew, her verse became milder, milkier and more conventionally romantic. In 1927, her The King's Henchman (score by Deems Taylor) was the Met's opera of the year and her published libretto went through four editions in a few weeks. She wrote less & less. In her mid-40s, stirred by rumblings...