Word: mildest
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...known as the Counter Revolutionary Information Center, which drew up lists of people and places to be attacked, both inside and outside South Africa. Brigadier Jack Cronje testified that police kept files on all known antiapartheid activists. This, said Cronje, meant that anyone who took part in even the mildest form of protest, such as a consumer boycott, was under watch, and could be "eliminated...
Wang's acquittal means that no Air Force officer will face anything but the mildest penalty. "This mishap was not the result of any one individual's actions," Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall says. "The conduct of numerous officers and the system itself contributed...
...certainty, makes bold statements rather than hedged ones, acts with authority," says Tannen. "The reaction is, 'Who does she think she is?' and she will be disliked." While men have a wide latitude in how they behave in public, women still have to tread a tightrope. Mimic in the mildest form the behavior of a male colleague, and you will be sorry. I know something about this because of the stack of hate mail that arrives if I so much as frown at Robert Novak on CNN's Capital Gang. He can shout me down, insisting I don't know...
Could there be poetic justice for the bard of black humor? Yes, and of a kind he might have appreciated. Sam Kinison, the frenetic comedian whose very mildest joke was a recommendation that his audience "drink and drive," was killed in California last year when a 17-year-old with a lot of beer cans in his vehicle smashed into Kinison's car. Witnesses said the teen surveyed the carnage and woozily exclaimed, "God! Look at my truck!" As for Kinison, a former Pentecostal minister turned scourge of all things decent, he seemed to be in an urgent discussion with...
...persecution and cultural isolation have turned the Maya into impoverished outcasts in their own land. At best, they are often reduced to tourist attractions; for a little money, Mexico's Lacandon Indians, for instance, will display their traditional white cotton shikur and long black hair. But condescension is the mildest of the abuses suffered by today's Maya. In a 1992 report on the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Amnesty International cited dozens of human-rights violations carried out by Mexican authorities against the Maya people of Chiapas: they include an incident in 1990 when 11 Maya were tortured after...