Word: mildest
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...brothel with sympathetic tolerance. Fairbanks authorities have sternly resisted attempts to close down blonde Big Babe, and the rest of the girls who keep open house along the "line." Alaskan liquor stores sell a clear, malevolent fluid called Spirits of Peoria, a 190-proof potion calculated to make the mildest man click his heels and bay like a malemute...
...Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing the harshest proposals, try to win public support by approving the mildest...
...They have utterly no conception of the humiliations and deprivations which the mildest of occupations must impose...
...Joint Chiefs, dividing the Pacific command by function rather than by area, had said in April that they might designate either MacArthur or Nimitz as commander of any future offensive. But MacArthur's statement provoked Nimitz to the mildest of replies. For the record, he pointed out, "Control of all naval and naval air forces, naval bases and naval installations" in the Ryukyus remains in his command; the strategic bombers remain under Spaatz's command. Spelling it out, Nimitz emphasized that naval commanders in the Ryukyus report direct to him-not through MacArthur...
...citizens liked the new British Government or thought it a political menace, they had to face the fact of its existence. For the time being at least, the U.S. would be the only capitalist country among the great powers. Americans could now watch socialism in one of its mildest forms in action in a country which was most nearly like their own, under the direction of responsible men. Whether this would cause a revision in the U.S. way of doing things was a question for the future...