Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edible Package. Having bounced back from a mild heart attack two years ago, Snaith is still zestfully looking for new arts and businesses to master. Sculpture beckons, as does real estate development. As for packaging, the number of products is rising so much faster than floor space in supermarkets that Snaith foresees the day when some items may have to be sold by a combination of TV, phone and computer. Some packages may have to shrink, says Snaith, and others may well be converted into something consumable-in other words, the wrapping will be edible...
...talking. But one night in 1930, as Art Dealer D. H. Kahnweiler recalls it, the conversation drifted around to the beauty of Marlene Dietrich. One of the group suggested that Marlene did not have beautiful thighs. "Too thick," he concluded. With a vehemence that shocked his friends, the mild-mannered Laurens leaped to Marlene's defense...
Find the Heel. By Bus Mosbacher's standards, that match was a mild, gentlemanly affair. Not that Bus isn't a gentleman-which he most certainly is, on land at least. He is an attentive hus band, a deeply affectionate father (he usually greets his three boys, who range in age from eleven to 15 with a kiss on the cheek), a loyal friend, a delightful conversationalist. He is the kind of fellow who might take a milkshake instead of a martini, never smokes a cigarette, and always squeezes the toothpaste from the bottom. The worst anybody...
There had been fears that last year's tough but necessary measures taken to deflate the economies of the major industrial nations-including the U.S., Britain and Germany-might go too far, turning a mild downturn throughout much of the West into a crippling recession. Not so, says OECD. The average growth rate of production in the OECD's 21 free-world member nations, which hummed along at a healthy 6% in the latter half of 1965, slowed to about 3% by the end of 1966, may come out to a barely perceptible 2% in the first half...
...patients and has relieved severe pain associated with surgery, injuries, cancer, childbirth, bone diseases arthritis and dental conditions. The pa- tients obtained about as much relief a they would have from morphine, but did not require increasing doses. Th side effects, such as nausea and dizziness, were usually mild. Government agencies are not yet willing to say flatly that pentazocine is nonaddicting, but they say it does not "support addiction" and need not be put under narcotic controls...