Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloodstream of China has been seriously infected with the propaganda germs spread daily from Peking: "America is Public Enemy No. 1. From billboards and posters, through the press, film and radio, in incessant speeches and slogans, the U.S. is reviled as an imperialist and an aggressor. Even the mild-mannered Madame Sun Yat-sen chuckled with glee when drawing our attention to a cartoon depicting Dean Acheson . . . as a 'bacterial bug.'" Moraes noted that Chinese who speak English with an American accent are nervous about where they got their education; he met one Columbia-educated Chinese interpreter...
...class power, when decisions were made for, not by, the people, and when the Duce took care of everyone. Most important of all, the M.S.I, won backing from among the same group that financed Mussolini's rise-rich landowners and industrialists who fear even De Gasperi's mild reform program and want insurance against change...
...Washington Hill was spending $1,000,000 a year on ads when Lasker stepped in; soon he was spending $25 million, and Luckies soared from third place to first in sales. Lasker and the legendary Hill spent endless hours dreaming up new slogans ("Nature in the Raw is Seldom Mild," "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet"). Hill, worried because more women smoked Chesterfields, and impressed by the growing fad of "research," wanted a survey made. Lasker, who relied on his own intuition, thought that so-called "market research" only proved that "there is salt in the ocean...
...story goes, both Bingham and Hutter were upset, Bingham incensed, Hutter disappointed. And just before the relay race began, Hutter walked over to Kiphuth. Speaking in a mild but firm tone he told the Yale coach that someday he would prove to him that he had done the wrong thing, someday he would prove to him that he should have been on that team...
Lamp Oil Internally. Way back in the Thurber cousinhood there was Dr. Beall. a homeopath in a plug hat, who believed in "small doses of mild drugs, a heavy meal three times a day, a good cigar after each one, a little whisky to regulate the heart, a cheerful disposition to relax the system, a healthy skepticism to clear the mind of notions, and a sane moderation in exercise and bathing, either of which could kill a man if he didn't watch out." Doc Beall's most common prescription was lamp oil taken internally. He took...