Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Epps met the glass eaters yesterday, and both sides reached a modest agreement to curb future undergraduate consumption of lightbulbs...
...thought." His return to at least a degree of prominence (he now seems to rank about 20th in the hierarchy, though he has not regained his party posts) is another indication of Mao's continuing effort to reunite the leadership. But Teng's duties are modest: he is believed to have been put to work reorganizing the youth corps...
...current world tour by Mexico's President Luis Echeverria produced a modest but unexpected diplomatic bonus last week. During Echeverria's visit in Paris, President Georges Pompidou announced that France would associate itself with the Treaty of Tlatelolco, a pact signed in 1967 by 21 Caribbean and Latin American nations (not including Cuba) to bar all nuclear weapons in the region from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego...
...citron-yellow Ericson motor sailer, which he bought to celebrate his engagement to Susan Weiner, 21, a sometime model and the daughter of a Los Angeles steel executive. "The whole world knows I am getting married on May 6," Spitz boasted, but was uncharacteristically modest about his career in show biz. "I have to be cautious. There are a lot of great actors out there...
...Harvard's small sum increased at a modest rate, mostly through private donations. By 1854, 218 years after the founding, the endowment broke the million mark...