Word: modeste
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...hitter forgets the first pitcher he faced in the big leagues, though Rose wonders yet why it was modest Earl Francis for the Pirates that opening day and not Bob Friend. "My first time up, Francis walked me on four pitches. What he didn't realize was I couldn't have swung at any of them." It was the first of 1,506 walks. "Frank Robinson followed with a homer--on the second pitch. Since Cincinnati used to open before anyone else, I scored the first run of the year." It was the first of 2,129 runs. Off Friend...
...believed in torture. He never sought power for power's sake. He is a real man of the people." Nyerere has abjured personal wealth, and throughout his presidency collected a salary that was lower than that of his Cabinet ministers. The road between the state-house and Nyerere's modest home in Dar es Salaam's Msasani district is said to be full of potholes. When asked why he had not ordered it repaired, Nyerere reportedly answered, "Why should I have a good road to go to work on when the rest of the Tanzanians...
...negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties in the 1970s, as Jimmy Carter's special Middle East envoy, and as chairman of countless public and private bodies, from the National Urban Coalition to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Despite his years in high places, Linowitz remains a remarkably modest man. This memoir contains few claims of credit for policy coups and no attempts at self-justification or revenge. The only enemy in sight is a little-known Pentagon official who opposed the canal treaties, and who is nonetheless described as "charming, capable, and full of goodwill...
Kimball had only a modest business career in Arizona before he became an apostle in 1943. His self-effacing manner and sieges of heart trouble and cancer led many to believe that he would be a caretaker President. Instead, he proved to be an energetic activist who toured 85 nations and spurred the international growth of the most successful religion ever born in the U.S. He was the first to put Asians and Latin Americans into Mormonism's top ranks, and permitted leaders of foreign jurisdictions to live overseas rather than in Salt Lake City...
...violent. Police arrested three Israeli extremists for attempting to sell grenades to settlers last month, but the Shin Bet official says the security service doesn't have enough agents to be sure of stopping someone bent on violence. The authorities have reason to be vigilant. In Sa-Nur's modest art gallery stands a chilling exhibit. On a white table, there is a bowl filled with rich, red pomegranates. The title of the installation is Negotiations. On closer inspection, one sees that the pomegranates are grenades...