Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President has had a mild coronary thrombosis." Those eight words spoken in Denver by a White House secretary thudded on the nation and the world. The first concern turned on the man, a figure of affection and respect in the hearts of more millions throughout the globe than any man of this decade. He is not idolized as some of the 20th century leaders have been. He is not hated and feared as some have been. He is liked. He is understood...
...inspired. Critics in his own party, diehard Democrats, French neutralists, oppose him but do not think he will do anything very wrong. (Even the Communists, going along, profess to trust him more than other American leaders.) Popular affection for Eisenhower focused attention on the content of that word "mild." How good were his hopes of recovery? As far as could be learned from naturally cautious medical bulletins, read in the light of what medical specialists know about such cases, the chances were good that he would have many happy, busy years ahead...
...planned to leave him soon. "I think you can judge from the fact that General Snyder is not going to remain in constant attendance that he does not regard this as serious." 2:30 P.M. Murray Snyder summoned the press for a terse announcement: "The President has had a mild coronary thrombosis. He has been taken to Fitzsimons Army Hospital." 2:35 P.M. President Eisenhower, supported by General Snyder and Colonel Byron Pollock, chief of Fitzsimons' cardiac section, left the Doud house, walked to his limousine, and was driven to the hospital. Mrs. Eisenhower remained at home...
...Newsmen were told that the President had suffered a "mild coronary thrombosis," not an occlusion...
Vernon B. Thomas '56 of Winthrop House and Chicago was stricken with "mild, non-paralytic" polio, and is now resting comfortably in the Massachusetts General Hospital...