Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old professor entered the clinic Wednesday after suffering a mild heart attack the previous day. His physician is expected to make a definite diagnosis of Demos' condition today...
Members of his family said that the 59-year-old philosopher had been seriously ill with a coronary thrombosis three years ago, and that although yesterday's attack was a comparatively mild one, physicians had recommended a thorough check-up at the hospital...
...proffered withdrawals on the central and eastern fronts, should be adequate compensation for Kaesong. The Reds refused. Next, the U.N. negotiators offered to pass the buffer zone directly through Kaesong-in other words, to make it a neutral city held by neither side. Again, the Reds refused. Finally, in mild desperation, the U.N. suggested that the line be left to drift with the battlefront and be adjusted as the last piece of business before signing the armistice. "Unfair," the Reds cried. A few days earlier, Matt Ridgway had told visiting diplomats that he was "never more confident of an early...
Intellectually, today's young people already seem a bit stodgy. Their adventures of the mind are apt to be mild and safe, and their literature too often runs to querulous and self-protective introspection, or voices a pale, orthodox liberalism that seems more second-hand than second nature. On the whole, the young writer today is a better craftsman than the beginner of the '205. Novelists like Truman Capote, William Styron and Frederick Buechner are precocious technicians, but their books have the air of suspecting that life is long on treachery, short on rewards. What some critics took...
Among the many living things that make men ill, the most baffling are the tiniest-the viruses. Drugs seldom do any good. The best defense is the immunity that comes after a mild attack; hence one of the big drives in medicine is the search for mild attackers, i.e., vaccines...