Word: milder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young painter in Paris, Fernand Léger made his living retouching photographs, but he grew heartily sick of the fuzzy grey pictures he had to pretty up. A stretcher-bearer in World War I, he found a sort of solace in looking at cannons, planes and tanks. The milder beauties of nature were not for him, he decided. What he wanted his paintings to rival was the harsh power and blank precision of modern machinery...
...touches of his own. In each seduction scene, a spotlight shifted to a Negro woman doing a belly dance in the background. Cocteau had also salted the dialogue. One critic noted that he had used "merde at least ten times, and it was one of the milder expressions...
Statisticians poring over the reports found some cold comfort. This year's total, whatever it might be, could not be compared directly with the 1916 total of 30,000 cases, because the U.S. population has increased by about half in the meantime. Also, because so many milder cases are now properly diagnosed and reported, the proportion of crippling and fatal cases is far less. (The death rate among youngsters under 15 is now one-fifteenth the rate of the 1916 mortality...
...William H. Perloff of Philadelphia vigorously debunks the supposed importance of hormones in determining sexual appetites. Although most widely used in treating impotence and frigidity, hormones are useful, says he, only in the rare cases where these disorders are plainly caused by a hormone imbalance. Both homosexuality and milder cases where patients show mannerisms of the opposite sex are entirely psychological in origin, says Perloff. For these, hormone treatments are useless...
...hero. In his home town of Maebashi, a crumbling provincial capital near Tokyo, Handa spent just enough time at his little bicycle shop to keep his wife and two children in rice and modest clothes; the rest of his time he fribbled away in an aimless search for a milder spiritual refuge than the stern Shintoism of his ancestors...