Word: mildest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Justin was growing accustomed to the tasteless venison after three days in the wilds. In Edmonton he would respond to even the mildest reproach, would defend himself with the precise, piercing elocution that had become his trademark. In the Arctic, blinded by the snow, frozen to the marrow, quivering with hunger, he sheepishly heeded Kamik and stuffed the meat back into the backpack...
...window of an Iranian in Denver, and he shot back, killing one of them. Eight Iranians, carrying rifles, telescopic sights and ammunition, were arrested at Baltimore-Washington International Airport as they prepared to board a flight to New York. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, normally one of the mildest and most self-controlled of men, said he sympathized with the demonstrators, even the violent ones. "I'd feel like taking a punch at one [an Iranian] myself, if I could get to him," said Byrd. Added Carter: "Every American feels anger and outrage at what is happening." In an effort...
...drop in starts that the NAHB foresees would be the mildest of the many housing declines that have repeatedly led the economy into recession since World War II. But its impact might be magnified by a reduction in credit-financed buying of other goods, notably cars. Last week General Motors cut its year-end dividend to $2.50 a share, from $3.25 a year ago. GM officials formally clung to their prediction that car sales will total a near record 11.5 million next year, but added that high capital outlays make it wise for the company to conserve cash...
...anti-inflation program focusing on what sounds like the mildest kind of presidential jawboning. The White House will attempt to knock half a percentage point off the inflation rate (6.5% to 6.8% in 1977, by various measurements) by urging union leaders and corporate executives to hold wage and price boosts below the average for the past two years. To that end, Administration officials will try to convene informal panels of labor and corporate bosses to work out wage-price goals for specific industries, bearing in mind that some will need bigger increases than others. Said Carter firmly, and to much...
...four musicians straggled toward the plane at London's Heathrow Airport last week, it was clear from their appearance that they were not just another Top 40 act. They spat in the air, hurled four-letter words (the mildest was "scum") at the photographers and with malevolent glares set off shivers in their fellow travelers. Said one woman passenger in disbelief: "What are we flying with -a load of animals?" No, just the Sex Pistols living up to their bad-boy reputation as the prophets of British punk rock...