Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look, the movie itself is pretty irrelevant. This is what you do: take someone you love or like a lot out to dinner on a Friday or Saturday night. Have a modest meal--some medium-priced seafood, perhaps (lobster is okay if you can afford it)--and a carafe of Chablis. Don't overdo it: you should emerge a wee bit sloshed and pleasurably filled. Skip dessert (that's the movie). Then go see Revenge of the Pink Panther. Make sure the movie theater is filled (there's nothing more depressing than watching a Panther movie in an empty theater...
...supersonic is being developed at present. The Anglo-French Concorde, of which ten are now flying, is such a fuel-gulping money loser that no more are on order and five have been left unsold. NASA and U.S. planemakers are still conducting supersonic research on a modest scale, but an American SST is not expected before the 1990s, and then only if the world economy is buoyant...
...magazine's first film venture, a college satire titled National Lampoon's Animal House, opens in 600 theaters nationwide. Bolstered by good reviews and Star, John Belushi, the movie is already playing to smash business in New York City and should return a hefty profit on its modest $2.7 million production cost...
Like most Government programs, Impact Aid began as a modest proposal to solve a major problem?and just grew and grew. As the armed forces built up during World War II and the Korean War, military bases mushroomed overnight and threw heavy burdens on local school districts, which were expected to educate children of servicemen. In Midwest City, Okla., for example, the number of kids in classes jumped from 285 to 1,500 in one year after Tinker Air Force Base opened near by. School officials around the country lobbied Congress to pass a law granting federal aid in lieu...
...would never have been modest...