Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart-attack phase, Lead I shows a deepened "Q" wave and a distorted "step" pattern in the downstroke of the "R" wave: the current takes a path around the area of dying muscle. This merges into an abnormal (inverted) "T" wave. After recovery from a mild attack, Lead I tracings return to normal except for the deepened "Q" wave. A more dramatic picture of changes is obtained from the V4 Lead, in which the electrode is almost directly over the damaged front wall of the heart...
Later, the harassed Murray Snyder was questioned about the elimination of the word "mild" from a hospital bulletin describing the President's thrombosis. "The word 'mild,' " he said, "was not in his [General Snyder's] more recent descriptions." The attack, he added, had been more fully diagnosed as an anterior (frontal) coronary thrombosis...
...three of the doctors attending President Eisenhower issued a statement which was read by Hagerty: "The President has had a moderate attack of coronary thrombosis without complications." Asked by the press for a clarification of the word "moderate," Dr. White replied, through Hagerty: The attack"was "neither mild nor was it serious...
...mild coronary thrombosis could be one in which a relatively small coronary artery has been closed and a small heart area has suffered damage. One such attack increases the chance that the patient will have another, although modern anticoagulants reduce the danger...
What had caused the mild winds of discontent on a small Mediterranean island to blow up into a crisis involving the entire Western alliance? Act I. It began with some inept diplomacy in London. The British, having turned Cyprus into their Middle East military-command post, decided the time had come to do something about Greece's demand for enosis (union) with Cyprus and its dominantly Greek (80%) population. Instead of seeking a direct Anglo-Greek settlement, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan polished up an old British plan for limited home rule, already rejected by the Greek Cypriots...