Word: humbler
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...reclamation of the rest of Camden, for the moment, rests in the hands of humbler agents. Dotted throughout the city are a number of tiny oases where abandoned homes are restored and sold at cost to families in need of housing. One such venture is Heart of Camden, which has so far rescued 55 of the city's 4,000 abandoned homes. Three years ago, the group also decided to bring in youths from the state juvenile facility to help with the renovations; they now manage their own operation...
Black skies, rain squalls, a cutting wind. June in Wales. On a bald hill outside Cardiff sits the Polytechnic of Wales, a scruffy institute that aspires to university status. Along its main drive hundreds of people have gathered -- local dignitaries, students, faculty, many humbler school employees. So have several members of the press...
...deluding herself about the past or revealing more about herself than she imagines. Such moments of surprising revelation never occur; Fay is without guile. Her resentment at Julia's imperious way with other people seems perfectly straightforward: "Why did she, without doing anything for anyone, inspire such devotion, while humbler, clumsier people like myself seemed doomed to do without...
...Today Duany and Plater- Zyberk, Calthorpe and their allies are proposing to go all the way, to build wholly new towns and cities the way our ancestors did. If the 1990s really lives up to its wishful early line -- a return to hearth and home, a redoubled environmental concern, humbler, simpler -- then the new decade should be ripe for the oldfangled new towns to proliferate, to become the American way of growth. Or so, anyway, it is no longer madness to hope...
...himself the star of the team and, in company with Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, turned the mid-'70s into a golden age. Their habit was to rag each other and everyone else at the batting cage, a merciless system that worked for them but ruined some humbler talents. If a wittier but lesser player tried to hold his own, they would trumpet their salaries in unison. It was another way of keeping score...