Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Sherman was an unusual man -brilliant, modest and, at 53, one of the youngest officers ever proposed as Chief of Naval Operations. His World War II record was impressive. He commanded the aircraft carrier Wasp until she was shot out from beneath him in the Solomons in 1942. During the final years of the war he was Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' "brain"; he helped plan the great sweep across the Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa...
...modest margin of two extra points was all the hard-driving freshman football team needed to beat Dartmouth at Hanover yesterday...
...well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James's Palace for a glimpse of the young groom, who met his bride, an ambitious pianist, at a music festival at Aldeburgh. Others flocked to Kensington to mill about the streets outside the bride's own modest third-story flat and to coo at one another over the wonder of this sad-eyed Cinderella who was to marry a king's nephew. So great was the enthusiasm all around that even Henry Honneybun, a bakery driver who had been the earl's batman during...
...Family Affair. A confident but unpretentious and modest man of 47 who goes in for motorboat cup-racing (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), Big Brother Guy gives most of the credit to brother "Carm," 46, whose distinctive singing, saxophone and phrasing have always set the tone of the band. Lebert's trumpet playing Guy rates almost as high. He puts his own talents at the bottom: "My fiddle never did anything." In fact, it's been years since he played...
...pains, Wald gets only $2,700 a week, about half of what he is worth to a top Hollywood studio at the going rate for production geniuses. Even on a living scale modest for Hollywood bigwigs (a ten-room house without swimming pool or tennis court), he moans that he can save little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does...