Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treatments. For the relatively mild case of hypertension, Page and colleagues prescribe the obvious-massive doses of moderation. First, they reassure the patient by explaining what they can do about his disease. Then they advise him to do what he can to avoid fatigue and excitement. He should spend ten hours in bed and take short naps, often. Every extra pound of flesh on the patient means work for the heart, so-reduce. Moderation is also prescribed in smoking and drinking, in exercise and sexual activity...
...Among large numbers of patients studied up to 30 years after an attack, 40% have made full recoveries in activity (though some showed electrocardiographic or other signs of hidden damage). Another 40% have made good recoveries with only mild symptoms...
...exchange for U.S. currency, importers can happily use their own valuable dollars for purchases abroad. But the premium is less pleasing to exporters, who must sell their products for U.S. funds but pay their production costs in dearer Canadian dollars. Last week it was the exporters' turn for mild satisfaction: the Canadian dollar slipped on the New York market to 100.5 U.S. cents, its lowest level since June...
Although Captain Don French is suffering from a mild cold, the varsity looks in pretty good shape. French may run against Doug Brew, captain of the Dartmouth squad and rated one of the top runners in the East. He is undefeated this year. In last year's meet Brew was edged at the finish line by Al Wills of the Crimson, but Brew is improved this season...
...shark to mullet. He was cool and quick, and when his Irish was up he laid about him like Kevin o' the Bogs. The picture makes this plain in combat scenes which could never have been napalmed off as the real thing without Audie. Credibility, burns in his mild face and gentle gestures as he moves through scenes of battle raptly, like a man reliving them with wonder and something of reverence. And just for a nervous instant, now and then, the moviegoer glimpses, in the figure of this childlike man, the soul-chilling ghost of all the menlike...