Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of vignettes about fun-loving politicians in the 1920s. In addition to being the best-written parts of the show, these vignettes are irresistable in the way they seem also to satirize recent events. The claims of Tammany officials that they afforded various luxuries on their comparatively modest salaries by saving the pennies earned by, for example, returning empty milk bottles could have been voiced by plenty of more familiar characters. And the cozying up of chorus girls to Tammany officials in the "Gentleman Jimmy" number is all the more amusing for the recent misfortunes of Representative Mills...
...fall, 11--or 2 per cent--are black. This figure constitutes a neglible rise in minority enrollment at the graduate school, and lends credence to the notion that its admission policy is still racist. Furthermore, the small number of blacks demonstrates Harvard administrators' flippant attitudes toward their all-too-modest affirmative action plan approved by HEW about one year...
Green, soggy and buzzing with flies, the state of Tabasco at the southeastern tip of Mexico has had some modest local fame as an oil region for decades. Now it has suddenly become the center of the most exciting mystery story in world petroleum. By drilling deeper than ever before-as far as three miles into the geological subbasement-Mexican engineers have found a much bigger reservoir of oil than anyone had suspected was there, a subterranean lake of petroleum three or four miles wide and perhaps up to 30 miles long...
...tense goal-to-goal situations, Plunkett is poised and powerful. Sitting in his modest Chestnut Hill apartment, he's ill-at-ease and soft-spoken. He'll crack a smile about as often as he'll fumble a football--hardly ever...
...modest Bullard attributed his scoring success to the good through passes of his teammates, coupled with a strong defense. "Our system is impossible without a good defense," he said. "Jeff Hargadon has broken up many plays in the backfield. He feeds the wing and then they relay the ball to me," Bullard added...