Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White was picked up by an unidentified woman in a red sports car at his modest bungalow on Shawnee Avenue and taken to city hall. Shortly before 11 a.m., White tapped on a basement window just off the parking ramp on the north side of the ornate, gray granite building. He told an engineer inside that he had forgotten his keys to the locked double doors by which supervisors can enter conveniently from the parking area. The engineer recognized White and let him in through the window...
...line of maritime oddities. Think of the look on your Grandmother's face when you present her with a carefully--wrapped, three--feet across chunk of purple brain coral. If this sort of thrill is worth 125 clams to you, go ahead. If you're a bit more modest you could send her a shark tooth necklace or even a complete shark jaw for a reasonable amount. But if Poverty is your middle name, you could send out a fleet of 99 cent Knobby Urchins to the candidates on your gift parade...
...says may contain up to 100 billion bbl.; that would be more than half as much as Saudi Arabia's proven reserves, as well as the biggest single accumulation of oil in the Western Hemisphere. Although Mexico's proven reserves are still formally pegged at a modest 20 billion bbl., officials have long said that the actual total is far higher...
...Conference, sported an identical record. Throughout the 28-team league, with the season nearly three-fourths over, the standings are closer than at any time since the 1970 merger with the American Football League. Before this week's action, only Los Angeles and Pittsburgh had managed to open modest leads in their divisions-two games. The Pack was back in contention, rekindling memories of the Vince Lombardi era in Green...
...people, Rockwell was a kitsch factory, turning out relentlessly sentimental icons of mid-cult virtue?family, kids, dogs and chickens, apple pie, Main Street and the flag?in the corniest of retardataire styles. But to most of them, Rockwell was a master: sane (unlike Van Gogh), comprehensible (unlike Picasso), modest (unlike Dali), and perfectly attuned to what they wanted in a picture...