Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week the doctors finally got their chance. The President woke up feeling poorly, and called for Major General Wallace Graham, his personal physician. Dr. Graham found that he had a low fever, decided he had contracted a mild virus infection-his first illness, beyond simple colds, since becoming President. He was asked to stay in bed. Eyeing the patient, the doctor also decided that it was time to make him hold still for a thorough physical checkup...
...dull season of summer TV replacements, one new show last week was giving televiewers a pleasant tingling in the funny bone. The program: Mr. Peepers (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC), a weekly half hour devoted to the mild misadventures of a frail, bespectacled little high-school science teacher, played by Funnyman Wally...
Lord Tennyson, looking for his imaginary land of the "mild-eyed, melancholy Lotos-eaters," might as easily have slung his hammock among the easygoing, soft-spoken people of Cambodia, smallest of French IndoChina's three Associated States (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos), a kingdom watered by great slow rivers and sheltered by towering mountains...
...These hagglings were mild in comparison to other how-de-dos of the past. Among the most notable: during the London games of 1908, staggering Italian Dorando Pietri was dragged across the finish line of the marathon by Britons wishful to see him beat the U.S.'s fast-closing Johnny Hayes. Dorando was helped to his feet four times in all, and Hayes, after an outraged American protest, was finally declared the winner. Afterwards, both turned "pro" and cashed in on the publicity with a marathon race at the old Madison Square Garden. Dorando won by 60 yards...
...Snayfooo. When it came time to press Labor's gentle censure, Socialist Philip Noel-Baker was so meek & mild that Churchill rumbled: "I can hardly see a point of difference between us except that he has to do his best to move a vote of censure." The Laborite move was really an attempt to censure the U.S., said Churchill. He read from Secretary of State Dean Acheson's closed-door explanation to members of the House: "It is only as the result of what in the U.S. is known as a 'snafu'"-Churchill rolled the unfamiliar...