Word: modest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hyams, himself a gynecological surgeon, they have not slowed down enough. The fact is, he recently told the New York Academy of Medicine, that far too many hysterectomies are still being done on women under 40, when all that is really needed in many cases is a much more modest operation to remove benign fibroid tumors from the muscle wall of the womb...
...written, a group of volunteers had decided to burn themselves, one by one, as a protest. Palach made two demands of the government: an end to censorship and the prohibition of the Soviets' occupation newspaper, Zprávy. Considering the finality of his act, they were remarkably modest requests. The note was signed, "Torch...
...mild-mannered, professorial air still conceal his intellect from casual acquaintances. But a discussion of opera-or early Bing Crosby-will set him off, as will any mention of Augustine, Nixon, Sophocles or the Baltimore Colts. With his wife and three children, he is quite happily settled in a modest home in a Baltimore suburb built largely to the postwar specifications of G.I. loans...
...World slavery but Arabs, though technically Caucasian, are often dark-skinned?therefore, soul brothers by adoption. Virtually every extremist leader has championed the Arab cause, even though Israel has contributed far more to the development of black Africa than all its Middle Eastern enemies put together. This paradox gains modest emphasis from the fact that a small minority of American Jews claim Ethiopian descent and that a much larger number of U.S. Negroes, perhaps as many as 350,000, claim and observe the Jewish faith...
What this modest example suggests is that the American Jew is capable of responding creatively to the challenge presented by black antiSemitism. "We Jews, of all peoples," says Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland's Fairmount Temple, "should be able to feel empathy with Negro frustration and anger. When we look deep into our Jewish conscience, we admit that it is right that the Negro should expect more of us." Lelyveld has given his share; as a civil rights worker in Hattiesburg, Miss., five years ago he was attacked and severely beaten by two white men. Says Charles E. Silberman...