Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nice guy-and a great individual." He is that all right. He is the grinning practical joker who passes around a perfume vial labeled "Apple Blossom," which actually is a stink bomb. He is the "Dominican Dandy" who dresses all in blue and cream. He is the mild hypochondriac who changes doctors with the wind and claims that he can't sleep properly in San Francisco because of "something in the air." He is the grand master of his trade. He is the stay-at-home who plays for hours at a time with his three daughters...
Rhesus J. Portfolio '00, former football much and innovator of the forward pass at Harvard, suffered a mild stroke yesterday while on a bird-watching expedition in Mount Auburn Cemetery...
...program-Washington is still sitting tight on this year's $150 million worth of grain-because Russia simply cannot afford to pick up the grocery bill. As a result, the joint Russo-Egyptian communiqué issued at the end of Kosygin's eight-day trip was notably mild in its criticism of U.S. activities...
Arthur Hill plays much the same part in Harper that Walter Matthau played in Charade. He's so mild-mannered you can't avoid suspecting him, but Hill in any guise is marvelous...
Nikolais, a mild-mannered ex-pianist, studied dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm before forming his own company in 1956. Now 54, he no longer dances, but concentrates on developing a theater of the "total happening," in which "man is taken out of this world and put into the universe." From that vista, the view is sometimes self-conscious and distorted, but the message comes through. Says Nikolais: "We've got to make our peace today with a lot more things than our fellow...