Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once that this modern Jez ebel led this nice-looking lad on. Poor Anne Bancroft, as the prosecutor, rails angrily, but he gets off and a week later has at the kid sister - played by Margaux's real-life sibling Mariel, 14, who appears to have a modest natural gift for acting...
...forces of good and evil. The program for the match makes it easy to tell one from the other--all the bad guys are listed in the left-hand column. But the crowd already knows most of the wrestlers from television interviews--Bruno, of course, is earnest and modest on camera, while Koloff plays a sadistic braggart. In the ring, it is easy to tell the good from the bad by the wrestlers' techniques. Bad guys use strangleholds and foreign objects, while good guys generally fight clean...
...normal human being might have checked into a local hotel rather than undergo all of this. But a candidate is not a normal human being. Even so calm and modest a candidate as Mo Udall is, after all, still a creature possessed by the vision of the White House just over the next state line...
...realities of power in Chile. There were popular slogans and lines from Neruda's poetry painted on the walls, there was a visit from Fidel Castro, there were rallies of hundreds of thousands in the streets. This carnival of revolutionary optimism belied Allende's dilemma: elected by a modest plurality, his Popular Unity government never held parliamentary power during his three years as President. He was unable to pass any major legislative initiatives. Only by zealous enforcement of laws previously enacted by the Christian Democratic government could he achieve the famous land reforms and nationalizations...
Knight will process the loan payments for Harvard at a "very modest cost," Gibson said, because they want the parents' insurance business. If enough parents elect to use the loan program, Knight will process the loans at "essentially no cost," Gibson said yesterday...