Word: mildly
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McCarthy's first reaction to the news of the invasion was to score the President for convening the National Security Council that same evening. In fact Johnson basically agrees with McCarthy's point of view. The President's reaction to the invasion was startlingly mild--a formal protest--and it was not until after there was serious talk of a Russian invasion of Rumania that the President warned the Soviets the United States would regard such action as an alarming change in the existing balance of power. Although he later cancelled a number of cultural exchanges between the two countries...
Other people die in the household. Four weeks ago, a three-month old baby died, lying alone on the parents' bed. The little girl had eaten nothing but pork fat in her short life; Mrs. Miller had no mild of her own to give the baby, and there was no money to buy milk from the store...
...attack, the Russians ordered Svoboda to set up an anti-Dubček puppet regime. They insisted on the right to name the members of the Presidium. If he did not comply, they warned, Czechoslovakia would be submitted to punishments that would make the rape of Hungary seem mild. They apparently even threatened to dismember the country, incorporating Slovakia into the Soviet Union and turning Bohemia and Moravia, the other two Czechoslovak provinces, into military protectorates...
...series of heart attacks be gan in April when Eisenhower was in California. Two weeks later, he was well enough to be moved to Walter Reed, where he soon suffered three more. In their twice-daily reports, cardiologists tried to distinguish between "mild heart attacks" and "myocardial infarctions." At best, the distinction is difficult to make. Infarction is the process in which part of the myocardium (heart muscle) is killed by being deprived of blood. Even a mild thrombosis and occlusion nearly always causes some infarction, though it may be an extension of an old scar...
Though still confident of a first-ballot victory, Humphrey toured the Midwest and Northeast over the weekend to meet with party leaders and shore up his delegate strength. He delivered mild gibes at McCarthy, but concentrated most of his attacks on Nixon and the Republican nominee's Southern supporters. "Nixon called on the midnight of the South," said Humphrey. "I call on its dawn and high noon." On the same theme, Humphrey hopes to popularize the slogan "Clear it with Strom," suggesting that South Carolina's Strom Thurmond has veto power over Nixon's decisions. Meanwhile, Humphreyphobes...