Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the first, the Sorensen appointment seemed curious. He served as President Kennedy's top adviser and speechwriter but has had little intelligence experience. Since he returned to private life (corporation law), he has urged a more modest role for the CIA and the curtailment of its covert operations...
From this base of modest expectations, Carter, like the man on the furnace, may have nowhere...
Latter-Day Monsters. The new volume, priced at a modest $60, contains more than 13,000 new and often exotic words, or new meanings for old words, along with some 125,000 quotations that illustrate their origins* and usage. Browsing through its 1,282 pages is like rummaging through a kind of verbal attic of folkways and attitudes that have shaped the language over the past half-century. The editors have placed their imprimatur on "McCarthyism," "McLuhanism," "Maoism" and "Naderism." They have acknowledged a menagerie of latter-day elves and monsters, from "Hobbits" (Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien's small, furry...
...ever accused Rosalynn Carter of dressing daringly. The new First Lady comes across as Peck & Peck's good girl, appearing in neat, classically modest outfits that always seem to look like last year's models. The dress she has chosen for the Inaugural Ball will be older: for sentimental reasons, she is wearing the same blue chiffon gown she wore six years ago at her debut as the First Lady of Georgia. But besides something old and blue, she will also have something new-an ice blue evening cape by New York Designer Dominic Rompollo, who launched...
...probably be the last person you'd expect to be ordained," says the informal and modest new priest, who likes to be called Jackie. Born in Peoria, Ill., to a traveling salesman and his wife, both of whom became alcoholics, she attended Catholic schools wherever her father took the family. She dropped out at 16 to marry Delton. The couple settled in Indianapolis, joined the Episcopal Church and raised four children...