Word: humbler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blessing on the prince's family for seven generations, one for each loaf. In the years that followed the prince's descendants, the Ni-zams of the princely state of Hyderabad, became the richest lords of all, in an India laden with rich potentates. Even the humbler men who declared India an independent republic in 1950 were loth to impose their democratic ways too swiftly on the 562 potentates who ruled their nation's princely states in unmatched autocratic panoply...
...Post's Phil Graham realizes his great power and responsibility and aims higher with dreams of greatness, independence and institutionalism for his paper. To further this lofty and noble purpose, he hires Herblock to defame the President as a perplexed boob, the Secretary of State as a smug humbler, the Defense Secretary as a predatory capitalist and the Vice President as a bestial figure crawling out of the sewer...
...colonel in the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War; General Jonathan Wainwright of Corregidor. On a brooding hillock General John J. Pershing lies in lonely aloofness. Another small knoll is occupied by the grave of Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur; near by, a plot is reserved for his son. Humbler graves reflect the grimness of war and the greatness of American history: "James Parks, born a slave," or, simply, "Unknown...
...typical Truman-at his worst. Actually, his estimates are -and have to be-very rough approximations of what is needed. Truman's long feud with Congress is rubbed raw by the President's open assumption that his estimates are exactly right and any others wrong. A humbler man would have outlined the problem, given his figure, stood ready to defend it in detail-and avoided tactless, advance insistence that every dollar he asked was essential...
...last week, after GAO filed its report, Brannan appeared before a Senate agriculture committee in a humbler mood. He apologized for his earlier crack about politics, admitted that CCC had known about the shortages at the time. They were worse than GAO had estimated; Brannan testified that they, might run as high as $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. Some 30 warehouse operators are involved. Twelve have been hauled into court already, and investigation of the rest is in the works. The Agriculture Department also revealed that one Nebraska grain-elevator owner shot himself two days after...