Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a Price List. All of this could be classified as oldfashioned, aggressive journalism until the Pope's physician, Professor Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi-the same who offered the photos of papal calisthenics-entered the story. A mild-mannered oculist, Dr. Galeazzi-Lisi first met the Pope when he was still Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican's 54-year-old Secretary of State, suffering from eye-strain headaches, which Galeazzi-Lisi relieved. When Pacelli was made Pope, he appointed his friend Galeazzi-Lisi as archiater,* or papal physician...
Twenty-four hours after entering Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center for his annual head-to-toe physical examination, a ruddy, smiling Dwight Eisenhower-onetime victim of a heart attack (1955), ileitis (1956) and mild stroke (1957)-came out with the pronouncement from his doctors that he is in "an excellent state of health...
Surely, however, there is more than altruism involved. Officers of the University have, no doubt, been delayed by traffic and some of them may even have developed mild symptoms of nervous frustration waiting to cross Massachusetts Avenue. But the crush of automobiles around the Yard cannot be the only reason for such a potentially expensive program...
Alone, except for four of his six wives, plump, 59-year-old Ofori Atta awaited the police clad in a long, grey war robe studded with talisman patches of leather. He chewed kola nut (a mild stimulant) as a sign of crisis. Hustled out to a police van, Ofori Atta was driven off through ranks of wailing women, but no spear-brandishing warriors appeared in his defense...
...only problem this entails is that to shorten the list for a minority is to penalize the majority by the reduced selection. It would seem, though, that most room-seekers would be willing to cut down their percentage chances of finding a place in order to combat even this mild form of racial bigotry. Besides, the University should not be a party to such discriminatory practices, a fact which the University undoubtedly knows...