Word: mildered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dividing the House. Near the end of Eden's disjointed, defensive speech he made the mistake of calling Gait-skell's criticism of the Baghdad Pact "a milder echo of the Moscow radio," and had to take his words back. Having risen to Tory cheers, he sat down to a Labor thunder of "Resign! resign!" Gaitskell, shouting at the top of his lungs to be heard, cried: "In view of the totally unsatisfactory nature of the Prime Minister's reply, we shall divide the House...
Health Minister Robert Turton announced that Britain has developed a modified Salk vaccine, which will be available this year for 250,000 to 500,000 children aged two to nine. Main difference from the U.S. anti-polio vaccine: substitution of the milder Brunhilde strain of Type I virus for the more virulent Mahoney strain, on the ground that if any live virus slips through, Brunhilde is less likely to cause serious paralysis...
...stranger in this world." LSD After Dinner. In somewhat smaller doses, LSD may have the opposite effect and actually help psychiatrists to clear up mental illnesses. British researchers have found it useful in psychoneuroses, generally rated as the milder forms of emotional disturbance (TIME, June 28, 1954). In Manhattan, Psychiatrist Harold A. Abramson of the Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory has developed a technique of serving dinner to a group of subjects, topping off the meal with a liqueur glass containing 40 micrograms of LSD. Instead of upsetting the subjects, it often helps them to recall and relive-in each...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, is called "a foremost state liberal"--one who seeks the same ends as Communism by "different, but milder means...
...inoculated, had telling figures: the paralytic-polio rate among the unvaccinated was 21 per 100,000, but only four per 100,000 among the vaccinated. In nonparalytic polio, the protection ratio was only about 3 to 2, but final returns were expected to show that the disease had been milder, on the average, in vaccinated children. Chicago was unofficially reported to have had only two cases of paralytic polio per 100,000 among the vaccinated, as compared with 32 among the unvaccinated...