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Word: mildest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greene County Pleasure Riders. "Get back there or I'll kick you out. even if your name is Harrison Salisbury." he threatened, and as good as his word, he planted a sturdy Garst brogan on the leg of The New York Times's reporter-probably the mildest mannered of all the trespassers in the corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Overworking Press | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...SHELLEY BILL, sponsored by California Democrat John F. Shelley. Mildest of the three, it would merely require labor unions to open their books for inspection. It carried the faint blessing of A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief George Meany, but not of Teamster Hoffa, who opposes reform of any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Great Labor Debate | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...A.F.L.-C.I.O. was all out for the mildest-yet labor bill, filed by California Democrat John F. Shelley (former president of the California State Federation of Labor). The Shelley bill skips over picketing and boycott abuses, requires financial accounting from unions, and also from management "of expenditures for union-busting activities and hiring of labor spies," as George Meany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Square Deal for Labor? | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...United Nations in Manhattan. His subjects were six atomic scientists (five men and a woman) who had been exposed to normally fatal radiation in a reactor accident at Vinca, Yugoslavia's equivalent of Oak Ridge. The patients were flown to Paris, lodged in the Hopital Curie. The mildest case, estimated to have absorbed 400 r., got better with conventional treatment-blood transfusions, special diet, rigorous protection against infection. The other five, nauseated and vomiting, soon showed a dangerous drop in blood-cell counts, and Radiologist Jammet decided to try heroic measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rays & Bone Marrow | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

What Jayne Mansfield has, the U.S. has seen so much of so often that she stirs only the mildest of ripples. But in Rio, where movie fans rarely see Hollywood oddities in the flesh, a hard-working girl can still stir a riot, especially at carnival time. Invited down for Mardi Gras by the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Jayne was instantly dubbed "0 Busto" and missed not an opportunity to justify the dubbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: O Busto at Work | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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