Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several Adams House residents were rushing yesterday to the Hygiene Building in a minor panic asking for gamma globulin inoculations, it was learned last night. The sudden rush for the wonder drug is due to mild contraction of hepatitis by an Adams House senior...
With his white hair bristling, Vermont's usually mild Republican Senator George Aiken roared: "Why did Mr. Butler go to this inhuman length? . . . There can be only one answer. He does not want President Eisenhower to run for reelection. His statement could lead one to think he would be very happy if Mrs. Eisenhower were in poor health. . . Does Mr. Butler think he can make her sick by this kind of talk? . . . We have often heard the question asked, 'Just how low and evil and loathsome can an animal in human form get?' I think Mr. Butler...
Originator of the weekly lunchtime sessions is Bangor's mild-mannered School Superintendent Homer Hendricks, 40, a Methodist. After hearing a talk by a local Roman Catholic priest stressing the need for closer ties between Bangor's churches and its youngsters, Hendricks decided to fill the gap. With the support of local clergymen and parents, he made available each Tuesday a classroom for any minister who would spend the 45-minute lunch recess with pupils of his faith. Attendance is entirely voluntary. For the first sessions, held early last month, 100 pupils showed up, some with their Bibles...
...taste for the right clothes, a talent for cocktail-party chatter and a superior knack for belting tennis balls. It is no trick at all to parlay such gifts into a year-round, expenses-paid vacation-wives and kids included. But many young players are not satisfied with such mild rewards. After he won the U.S. singles title in the summer of 1953, crew-cut Tournament Traveler Tony Trabert announced his intentions: for another season or so he would make a name for himself in amateur tennis; then he would be open to offers from the pros...
...attempting one of the following: 1) to drive the restless from wholesome entertainment on a day of boredom in order to encourage desperate amusements; 2) to entice disbelievers into the moviehouses on weekdays by banning harmless moral productions on Sundays; 3) to promote a Christian revival by a mild martyrdom of Christian art . . .; or 4) to annoy moviegoers by being arbitrary and inconsistent...