Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...health was so robust that doctors had to fudge a little to avoid contradicting his own self-diagnosed complaint of "chronic bronchitis." They tactfully reported that he had a "persistent mild tracheobronchitis...
...masked Cambridge firemen hauled away an old refrigerator which routed students from C-entry of Dunster House early this morning. Escaping sulfur dioxide, from a broken tube in the relic, spread from the fourth floor to the basement, creating a mild panic among the Dunster ranks...
...story begins south of the border on March 8, 1916 during the expedition against Pancho Villa. Mild, middle-aged Hero Cooper is a major in the U.S. Cavalry who at his first brush with the enemy "yellows out" and hides in a ditch while his men fight and die. For the sake of Cooper's father, a famous name in the Cavalry, the C.O. conceals the son's disgrace, assigns him to special duty as an awards officer. The coward, by a truly profound stroke of irony, is set up as the judge of what courage...
Before a game, Schwartzwalder gives his team a mild tongue-lashing as a stimulant but avoids oldtime histrionics. "If Knute Rockne came into my locker room and gave one of his fight talks, the kids would laugh him right out of the place," he says. "You can't fool them. When I was a player, Greasy Neale tried to tell us three weeks running to go out and win the game for his dying mother. And there she was every game, sittin' up in the stands...
...Mild as it was, the new plan pleased no one. Said Group Captain Leslie Briggs, hard-shell leader of the far-right, pure-white United Party: "This is dishonest and dangerous-we would have no right to stop a convicted Mau Mau gangster farming next door to us." With equal vehemence, African Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya denounced the proposals as falling far short of the sweeping redistribution of White Highlands acreage demanded by Africans. Even members of the moderate New Kenya Party, led by Michael Blundell, Kenya's most progressive white politician, raised the outcry that the plan...