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...guilty to the lesser charge of refusing to testify. Then Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. gave him a one-month suspended sentence because his offense "reflects a heart too loyal" to the President. Next the bar in his home state of Arizona voted merely to censure him, the mildest possible sanction. And a panel of three Washington, D.C., federal judges found no grounds for suspending him from practice in their courts. Said one Washington lawyer: "The legal profession in general had decided to give Kleindienst a 'pass...
Down she slides: not a Blue Ribander, evidently; smaller than we were led to expect, and lighter; but so buoyant, so fresh and trim in line, that we only realize later and with the mildest disappointment that this Pride of the Clyde is in fact a yacht...
...chorus is finishing its warmups. After it sings the first number, Krag remarks, "The reason we went over diction in the beginning was so you would do it in the song. Also, there was no difference between the forte and the rest of the song." It is the mildest of reproofs...
...irony is that many of the deaths that can be traced to high blood pressure are, in fact, avoidable. Doctors may not be able to cure cancer or the common cold, but modern medicine can now treat virtually every case of hypertension, from the mildest to the most severe, effectively and relatively inexpensively...
...last word on that kind of analysis. "'You have scarce the soul of a louse,' he said, 'but the roots of sin are there.'" Robert S. Strauss, the Democrats' party chairman, compared the party not to a louse but to a gorilla, but he evidently had only the mildest, friendliest, least threatening kind of gorilla in mind--after all, the party did not want to frighten any potential voters away...