Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the final communiqué was written and the last toast-so carefully worded-was delivered, the third summit meeting between President Nixon and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev came to a quiet close last week. It had lived up to its advertised and modest expectations, and yet the result, despite the cautious advance billing, was something of a letdown. The dialogue had continued, the spirit of detente was nudged ahead by some useful if minor pledges of cooperation in scientific and cultural fields. What was worrisome about Summit III-and deeply disturbing about the future-was what had been...
Moscow 1974 had the down-home feeling of a reunion, with medium-size expectations and modest hopes. "It is almost routine now," said a Soviet official, as he surveyed the summit's opening-night festivities in the Kremlin's St. George's Hall. "Last time Nixon came it took us three months to get ready. This time it has taken two weeks...
...crackdown on wildcat strikers represents a very modest start toward solving Portugal's horrendous economic problems. Inflation is running at 30% a year and the main sources of foreign earnings are drying up. Remittances sent home by Portuguese workers living abroad, which amounted to almost $1 billion last year, were down at least 70% in the first month after the coup because of uncertainty about the situation back home. Tourism, the second most important source of foreign-currency income, is down at least 30%. The halls of big Lisbon hotels are as empty as morgues, and beaches along...
...first, Elisabeth is elated by the possibilities of independence. But if marriage to her husband was crippling, she is helpless outside it. She moves in with a pregnant friend, lives modestly, looks for work, has an intermittent affair with an engineer (Martin Luttge). She gets a series of routine jobs (sales assistant, secretary, typist, guide) and tries to give modest shape to childhood dreams of becoming a musical-comedy actress by taking singing and dancing lessons...
...fortune to back his enterprises. What the son of a poor Montana farmer has lacked in money, though, he has more than made up in flair, shrewd business sense and sheer moxie. He set the tone for his climb to fortune eight years ago when he was running a modest law office in Southern California. "If people came in my office with money," Davidson says, "I took their cases...