Word: modeste
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...official” class ring. According to council members, this measure would reduce the price of the rings $100 to $200 for those extravagant souls with their hearts set on the hollow tokens of remembrance. At present, class rings are sold by several vendors whose modest sales volume compels them to charge exorbitant prices. With council sponsorship, complete with an official ceremony to confer the cherished symbols of opulence, a lucky retailer would capture most of the market. In turn, they would offer better deals for students, who would generously be spared part of the cost of their own vanity...
...Crimson player or coach what was behind the remarkable season now drawing to a close, and the answer—modest to a fault—is nearly always the same: it wasn’t one great player. No, it was “Harvard hockey...
Wilson has personally contributed $10,000 to the Bangladeshi sanitation effort, and he has also helped on-the-ground rehabilitation programs. He is modest about what he has accomplished. “You just have to organize it,” Wilson says, “you think it’s going to be hard until you actually just...
...When presenting information in a conversation, mention your source. It makes you seem modest and open-minded. By Andrea Sachs
...British people ejected Churchill not because they disapproved of his war but because they didn't think he was the man to lead them in peacetime. Churchill's opponent in 1945, Clement Attlee, was, like John Kerry today, no heavyweight. In Churchill's words, Attlee was a "a modest man who has much to be modest about." But he still crushed Churchill at the polls. The first President Bush faced the same problem. With the Gulf War and the cold war over, voters wanted a domestic, ingratiating figure to lead them in the 1990s. Enter smooth-talking Bill Clinton. More...