Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign does strange things to people. A mild-mannered college dean turns into a platform demon, and a Harvard-baiter suddenly mellows. The issue of politics in the Cambridge schools may not seem important to a student, but it is vital to the men and women on both sides of the question. Whether the "good guys" or the "bad guys" win probably won't matter much to the Russian satellite or the trouble in the Middle East, but it is the stuff of American politics, and it is a phenomenon that no participant or spectator is likely to forget.Incumbent School...
...joke that had spread across the nation with appalling thoroughness. Called variously sick stories, gruesome jokes or Bloody Marys, these gags get their laughs by making fun of decapitations, amputation, disease, death - in short, every variety of horror-provoking subject dealing with physical disability. The jokes range from the mild to the bloodthirsty. Samples...
...mild psychiatric principles into Church of England seminary curriculums, and is cooperating with Moslem leaders in exploring mental-health needs in their theoogical schools...
Antics are light, with a minimum of slapstick. The two young lawyers have a bout with two judges on the golf course, flounder on the floor of Miss Smith's darkened room, and rejoice happily in their own lack of brilliance. The dialogue is rapid and restrained--a mild spoof on the pomp and powdered wigs which characterize the British legal fraternity...
...scheduled Leverett-Dudley game was cancelled because of double forfeitures, as both teams had trouble recruiting squads due to mild flu attacks...