Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confession of guilt out of Foreign Minister Rajk, the Stalinists sent mild-mannered Janos Kadar, his best friend and wartime comrade, to talk with Rajk in his cell. "Of course, we all know that you are innocent," said Kadar, but "by doing this you will render a historic service to the Communist movement." Rajk confessed in court-and was hanged. A little later Kadar himself was arrested. "After his release," wrote Hungarian Journalist George Paloczi-Horvath, "he told the Central Committee how he was tortured. A lieutenant colonel of the security police had beaten him until he fainted. When...
...Atlanta against the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and their Atlanta distributors, charging that he caught poliomyelitis from his son, who developed the disease a week following inoculation with vaccine that contained live virus (before improved testing methods were adopted by manufacturers). The child's symptoms were mild and he made a good recovery, but the father's case was severe. Martin's suit charges that he was unable to work for nine months, spent six months under treatment at Warm Springs, Ga., can now work only part time (for Lockheed Aircraft Corp.), and "still suffers...
Peyote greatly heightens the individual's senses, causing him to react more sharply to sounds, smells, and light. It also distorts his perspective, often making him feel taller than he actually is. Mescalene reportedly incites mild delusions...
Although the use of tobacco has become a "calculated risk," Snegireff said, it is only a "mild cancer-producing factor" which does not normally result in malignancies until after a period of at least twenty years of heavy smoking...
...never even sweats. Seven (Jack Warden) is a marmalade salesman who can really spread it on, and who is all for rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball game. Eight (Henry Fonda) is a mild-mannered, intelligent architect. Nine (Joseph Sweeney) is a cranky old pensioner, but smart. Ten (Ed Begley) runs a string of garages and spits like a battery syringe whenever the subject of race comes up. Twelve (Robert Webber) is an adman who can't distinguish the truth from a slogan...