Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mississippi Senator John Stennis' profile represents one of the Nader report's major lapses. It points out that Stennis has a reputation as a modest pork barreler, and that despite his role as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mississippi has only four military installations and three defense contractors. Nevertheless, the report suggests darkly that Stennis "may be taking the pork back to his economically beleaguered state." Although the report writer eloquently describes the poverty in which many Mississippians live, he seems to resent the fact that HEW and the Department of Agriculture respectively pumped...
...else again. One of the classiest teams in the classier league, they had defeated the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates for the National League pennant. They had the bulk of the superstars on their side, names like Catcher Johnny Bench, Second Baseman Joe Morgan, Outfielder Pete Rose. Their uniforms were modest, their locks a model of tonsorial tidiness. Ironically, they played a wild, freewheeling brand of baseball, while the A's tended to play a more conservative game. Cincinnati speed and power made the Reds solid favorites at the start of the World Series. Yet the A's startled...
...famous for being able to talk on Halakhah for hours on end, citing obscure Talmudic judgments without any notes at all. Though strictly Orthodox, Yosef can hand down opinions that have a liberalizing effect, as he did recently when he ruled that slacks (previously forbidden) were more modest than miniskirts for Israeli army girls...
...instructions clearly indicate that a very low key approach is to be used, and precinct captains are instructed not to identify themselves with the Nixon organization until they have asked the student's presidential preference. Schuck's expectations of the results of the effort are equally modest...
...recruit then takes three more two-hour "lessons," pays a modest fee ($75 generally, but only $45 for college students) and he is ready to reap the full benefits of transcendental meditation. Simply expressed, the goal of TM, which despite its Oriental trappings is not a religion but a quite secular relaxation technique, is to enjoy life more, to shuck tension by letting the mind travel far from mundane concerns a couple of times a day. To TM preachers, the practitioner is "expanding his awareness," developing his "creative intelligence," experiencing "subtler states of thought," and achieving "deep rest...