Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several students quietly demonstrated against Falwell outside Austin Hall then, but Falwell's speech drew only mild hissing from the audience...
...things really bother me about such language. One of these is the abuse of the word "like," which with the exception of similes and expressions of mild affection, should not be used. It seems to me that people use it when they can't like, you know, think of any like adjectives...
Lieut. Elmo Zumwalt III, 40, is the admiral's son. His childhood does not seem to have been unduly affected by the aura of authority. Elmo had other problems: a heart defect that had to be surgically corrected; a mild but frightening case of polio, from which he fully recovered; and a hard time getting good grades at school. Yet he persevered, graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1968 and going into the family business as a swift-boat commander in Viet...
...stepped from the rostrum, Gaddafi received only mild applause. In contrast, the audience clapped loudly when Mugabe replied that "not all our members" agree with Gaddafi. The Zimbabwe leader then added that the conference had at least given Gaddafi a forum to air his views...
...been through, and how terrible this disease is," Smith told the Washington Post from his hospital bed in Silver Spring, Md. In Houston, officials proudly announced the opening of a private 150-bed hospital, the first devoted solely to AIDS patients. And in New York City, only mild rumblings greeted the news that six students with AIDS or AIDS-related diseases will start school on Sept. 8. "We accept that children with AIDS are going into our classrooms," said George Russo, president of a local school board that fought attendance by an AIDS-infected second-grader last year. Though...