Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rays), chemical changes within the body's blood-making cells, chemicals outside the body (industrial wastes, gasoline fumes), the emotions (which upset the body's metabolism), and viruses. Dr. Erf had a suggestion for research: since leukemia victims have improved after having virus diseases, give them a mild strain of virus diseases like chickenpox...
Some Cabinet heads also seemed to be suffering from a mild political schizophrenia, unhappily trapped between their own ideas and loyalty to the Administration. The Senate was heading in two directions at once-one committee was investigating the cause of high prices and another the cause of falling prices. Meanwhile, except for a few aching spots here & there, the patient seemed to be generally enjoying the situation. Prices were lower than they had been for months, and a man with a job could buy a steak again, and an egg for his beer if he liked it that...
...rules, the strike of Buenos Aires' newspaper typographers should have been a cinch to settle. Their demand-a 25% wage boost to meet the soaring cost of living-seemed mild enough by recent Argentine standards. But before the week was out, the printers had defied both their officers and the government, and shut down all newspapers in Buenos Aires. In the weird half-light of the resulting news blackout, Argentines watched as shadowy figures pulled & hauled, and Juan Perón's government teetered...
Despite a few mild laughs, the gag stretches thin during the 90 minutes it takes to get the harried honeymooners to bed. Whatever novelty the script suggests in turning a wedding trip into a family excursion is lost in the exhausted atmosphere of marital misunderstanding and reconciliation...
Professor Raphael Demos, who suffered a heart attack on January 29, is expected to leave the Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, in a month's time, and to resume his teaching duties in the Philosophy Department sometime during the spring. His thrombosis is a very mild one and he is in better condition than was earlier reported...