Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This wrist-slap satisfied no one but the Army's brasshats, who were only too glad to see the whole unsavory mess over & done with. The prosecution privately argued that the sentence was ludicrously mild. The defense insisted that the court had actually found Defendant Kilian guilty of neglect of duty, a charge not filed against him. Said one sarcastic G.I. spectator: "We're going to take up a collection to pay the poor guy's fine...
...will also try to teach a little psychiatry to the family doctors. Said Dr. Robert Felix, chief mental hygienist in the U.S. Public Health Service, who is the council's executive officer: "It is just as essential that the general physician be able to handle mild emotional upsets as to be able to handle fractures or deliver babies...
...Fillers. Weather-house sales are sure to drop this year. But bright, mild-mannered Bob Kahn, 38, has some items to fill the gap. One of them is a gas-station model from which an attendant emerges in a uniform or in a raincoat, depending on the weather; another is a combination clock-thermometer-barometer...
...with a History. About 80% of all ulcers respond to medical treatment-e.g., a mild, unstimulating diet-and a change to a less exacting job. The remaining 20% may be relieved by removal of ulcerated sections of the stomach or intestines, but often new ulcers break out after the operation. All the vagotomy cases were in this stubborn group...
...sooner wound up a mild flirtation with a lunchroom girl than two men chivvy him into an alley and work him back & forth like a rockinghorse, one hammering at his solar plexus, the other at his kidneys. And he has hardly got his breath back when he has to watch a huge criminal (Fred Steele) force a small damp grey one (Elisha Cook Jr.) to drink a glass of poison. After that it is only a question of time before the big man has laid out Marlowe with a fistful of small auto parts...