Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outright prediction of a Palmer-like series of witch-hunts? The editorial reader Livingston attacks is no more than a deeply felt and statistically plausible qualm on our part, one which we hope is needles. Whatever upset reader Livingston's stomach, then, has little to do with such mild grape-juice as out. It involves ingerdients which he himself unjustly read into the editorial...
Down here in New York the football fervor is reaching its customary stage of mild mania and this year they are tormenting us with a new charge, emanating primarily from Princeton. Our schedule, they claim, lacks virility. We must go on the offensive and you may be interested in a recent exchange of sentiments I had with a Princetonian. I think you will agree that their 24-game winning streak was a bit of a sham...
...from being the weapon of final victory over polio (that is likely to be a vaccine). Its chief drawbacks: ¶It gives only "passive," short-lived immunity (five weeks' protection from an average dose). "Active," permanent immunity must still be developed by each individual in fighting off a mild attack by the polio virus-the kind of attack that often goes unnoticed or is mistaken for a cold...
...council of upper-classmen also controls the indoctrination of freshmen. Although all violent hazing was long ago curtailed by school authorities, some mild vestiges still remain. All freshmen are required to wear beanies until the spring term, when the freshman class is formally recognized and beanies are consumed in a bon-fire...
...Germany's Fritz Winter is as wild as Britain's Nicholson is mild. Yet the apparent boldness of Winter's Elevation rests on brushwork as fluent and as decisive as that of Chinese calligraphers. He is a leading figure in the expressionistic, anti-geometrical wing of abstract...