Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buckley's "modest proposal" has a whimsically beguiling logic. After all, he remarks hyperbolically, Hawaii and Alaska are as far from Washington as Tel Aviv; and if Spanish-speaking Americans are allowed to vote, why not Hebrew-speaking Americans? Of course, Buckley concedes, some Israelis might object, but they might be won over, "provided we affirmed our dedication to states' rights...
...multimillion-dollar building boom has already started. Big companies like Gulf American Corp., GAC Corp. and Mackle Bros, are moving into the area, filling in the wetlands and building high-rise hotels and condominiums. The most unyielding obstacle to this juggernaut of change is a pensioner of modest means named George C. Matthews, who has successfully challenged corporations and officials up to and including President Nixon...
...should never do it. This is the stern thesis of a Washington-based organization called Accuracy in Media, and it is wielding a potent weapon to challenge any miscreants: the advertisement. Founded three years ago on a nonprofit basis, AIM operates with a volunteer staff of 30 and a modest budget of $15,000 in contributions. It seeks out errors in news reporting and commentary, requests retractions, then buys ads to publicize the mistakes if they are not corrected...
...Pike, he inherited a 19-room mansion that the diocese, at Pike's request, had bought for more than $100,000. Bishop Myers requested that the residence be sold and the money used for a better cause. He and his family set up quarters in a more modest San Francisco apartment. They plan to move aboard the Daring...
...Dancing is a modest tribute to the art of storytelling, it is a genuflection before the institution of the free library. When the author, a 42-year-old Evansville Ind., housewife, decided to write a novel, her first order of business was to figure out what kind would least display her ignorance. She had no degree, had never held a decent job, traveled, flown in an airplane, or so much as taken a vacation. But she was a magpie reader especially of fiction and history and she knew her way around a library. To wit: the setting of Cat Dancing...