Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure. Sorry Garry. I'm going with Team C." Mild applause...
...than Jimmy Carter, whose final days as President and first days as a returned citizen of Plains squeezed him through an emotional wringer. He had known, of course, that some of the hostages who had been released earlier had been verbally abused and psychologically harassed with threats of death?mild treatment compared with the savagery inflicted on many Iranians during the Shah's rule and then later under Khomeini, though unconscionable nonetheless. But during a wrenching visit with the 52 at the U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, Carter became appalled at the hostages' descriptions of their ordeal...
Miles' search through the film archives has uncovered many priceless scenes, however, and time has given a new perspective to both Harlem and the people who lived there. Malcolm X, the murdered black Muslim leader, once outraged or terrified many whites, but his statements here seem reasonable and mild. "Do you consider yourself militant?" a reporter asks him toward the end of the series. He laughs and replies: "I consider myself Malcolm...
...besieged by commissions. In fact, there is hardly one major 20th century artist-not even Alexander Calder or Henry Moore- whose essential oeuvre includes much public, commissioned sculpture. On the public scale, the suppleness of intuition tends to stiffen and is replaced more often than not by a mild form of self-parody. The old cliché was the bronze general on horseback, humiliated by birds. The new one is the abstract ashtray by some Top Name in the windy downtown plaza, victimized by creeps with spray cans...
Though flue vaccinations are available, the epidemic will probably be over before the antibodies take effect, William Kaden, director of health services at the Business School, said yesterday. For young, lowrisk patients, a mild case of the flue will build up stronger antibodies than the vaccine, he added...