Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like a Mild Cold. Yet there were times when the Senate seemed to be considering nothing more momentous than a proposal to plant petunias on the Capitol mall. Rarely were more than a few dozen Senators on hand to take part in the debate. Others strolled in occasionally from the cloakrooms to interrupt the proceedings with speeches about dam projects in their home states. In the presiding officer's chair, New York Democrat Robert F. Kennedy leafed idly through a sheaf of clippings about his recent raft trip down the Yampa and Green rivers in Colorado and Utah. After...
...victims (half of whom don't know they have it) is the "mature onset" type. This develops in people who are over 40, of stocky build and overweight-but always hungry. This form, if severe, was once controlled by insulin and diet, and if mild, by diet alone. Now the milder cases do better with drugs added to diet...
...away to factory jobs were brought back as cane planters and cutters, swelling the work force from 150,000 to 200,000. Another 70,000 "volunteers" were pressed into service. Pictures of Castro himself wielding a machete flooded the country. Even so, it took two years, plus an exceptionally mild and dry spring, to reach the 6,000,000-ton level...
Lowell, now 48, was among a score or so of writers invited by President Johnson to participate in a White House arts festival on June 14. He accepted the invitation, but then had second thoughts about it. Last week he caused a mild commotion by declining in public...
...anxieties roused among conserv ative Roman Catholics by their church's current reforms have been mild in the open-minded U.S., obedient Italy, in different Latin America and theologically adventuresome Germany. It is in France, where the church has been sharply divided into progressive and conservative wings since the Revolution, that the issue is bitterest...