Word: benign
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...doubt, there were also certain people who proved unable to handle themselves while drinking. But the administration has chosen to remedy this in a ridiculous way. In the free society in which we all live, the administration decided to impose a ban on students, removing perhaps the most benign form of drinking--keg beer...
...hour from Harvard. "I came back to New York in 1967 to live permanently, and right away was involved in a community of writers. My way of being involved was to cleave them to me and control them all by starting a little magazine. It became a kind of benign power, and at the same time a friendly way to involve myself. That was my original motivation...
...suddenly and selectively benign attitude of the Bush team toward manual recounts - do them or don't do them, just get them in on time - occasionally tripped them up with seven judges who have been at least perusing the papers. (Justice Barbara Pariente, almost absurdly, even tried to nail Bush heavy-lifter Michael Carvin on Bush's Texas hand-count law.) At one point, in the middle of his "contest" argument, Carvin had to say whether the current hand counts would proceed beyond a Harris certification. "No" was not the answer this court was looking...
AILING. EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER, 79, sister of John F. Kennedy, mother of NBC reporter Maria Shriver, Special Olympics founder; from a postoperative infection after the removal of a benign pancreatic tumor; in Baltimore...
Quickly after the onset of these initial, mostly benign symptoms, more serious symptoms such as chest pain and shock ensue, and some patients become blind or begin to bleed profusely. This bleeding is caused by the breakdown of membranous tissues that separate different parts of the body from others. As these cells become infected and release their viral loads, the patients' organs effectively liquefy. Membranes that separate the patient from the outside world also breakdown, releasing this internal viral slurry. In effect, the patient becomes a human virus bomb...