Word: mildest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occasionally, I receive letters with obscene words and drawings. There are threats, the mildest being a pledge to beat my face in. Our weekly magazine is criticized in a newspaper that from force of habit no one dares argue with: * Pravda. The fear caused by this newspaper is supposed to be so deep and basic that it is ten times greater than other fears...
With the obliviousness of the very rich, Harriman almost never carried any cash. Left stuck with the tab, young Foreign Service officers began calling Harriman "the world's richest cheapskate." That was perhaps the mildest of the many epithets he had to endure. At various times he was dubbed a playboy by the press, a traitor to his class by Wall Street and a Communist sympathizer by the Republican right. In history's verdict, he will be better remembered as a statesman who served his country with distinction...
...Illinois Appellate Court judge, lists the four tiers of crime: white on white, white on black, black on white, and black on black. "The punishment is most severe for black-on-white crime," he says, more severe than either white on white or white on black. The punishment is mildest for black on black. Notes Pincham: "It thereby gives tacit approval of black-on-black crime...
Sander said the Ad Board took into account that "people might be arguably confused about what is a permissable way of voicing their protest" when it levied the mildest form of sanction on sit-in participants last May. The warning, he said, was to make clear to protesters that forcible entry and refusal to leave upon request were "clearly inappropriate...
...government has reacted to even the mildest episodes of unrest by calling out legions of police. After responding to the worldwide condemnation of apartheid by hinting that genuine reform was on the way, it abruptly reversed itself in Botha's blunt reaffirmation of the present system. It fought a school boycott in the black township of Soweto two weeks ago by arresting more than 700 black youngsters, many of them no more than eight or ten years old. Last week, when Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu's son Trevor, 29, expressed his indignation that a nine-year-old was being brought...