Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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General Lee's supporters are mak ing a drive in this session of Congress to restore his lost citizenship. Last week the senate in Virginia, where Lee was born and died, passed a resolution call ing upon Congress to correct the long standing error. It seemed a modest enough request a century after the War Between the States...
...Modest Reforms. As the extortion scandal grew, Conlisk stepped down under pressure last November, becoming chief of traffic. Rochford, his right-hand man, was named acting superintendent until a permanent replacement could be found. The city's police board screened 250 applicants for the job, then passed on three names-including Rochford's -for consideration by the mayor. In an anticlimactic ending, Daley then announced, as many had suspected all along he would, that the job was Rochford...
...polo team has a lot of things working against it. In spite of this, the outlook this year is very good. "We should do as well as last year, if not better," was the modest quote from Steele, the team's scoring leader. They may do better, and if they do, they maybe, just maybe, will receive some long-awaited and much-deserved publicity...
...September 3, 1973 almost two million Chileans, about one-fourth of the nation's population, marched in a giant revolutionary celebration through Santiago and waved at the modest looking man on the reviewing stand. One week later, he gave his life not because he was their patron but because he was their brother. It is not only that the United States may have been directly involved in the coup that concerns us. Chile matters to us primarily because a just revolution was ended and many good people were murdered. Even as we mourn their deaths, we draw renewed courage from...
...Petaluma ordinance, they argued, limited the constitutionally guaranteed freedom to travel. They also contended that a fence-them-out approach would put an "undue burden" on interstate commerce, specifically the commerce of producing housing. Moreover, the rule would force housing prices up, imposing a harsh penalty on families of modest means and violating their right to equal protection under...