Word: modeste
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...once, the Americans were modest. There was no showboating, no fist-pumping, no Shaq-like strutting. Landon Donovan, a wide-eyed U.S. midfielder whose centering pass miraculously ricocheted off of Portuguese defender Jorge Costa for an own goal, simply looked up, shook his head in wonderment and said, "I don't know, man. It was pretty incredible...
...coaches who have assembled their players in Korea and Japan, the week before the tournament was all about making excruciating selections, picking a team of 11 from a squad of 23. Spain's Jos? Antonio Camacho had to choose from 10?yes, 10?midfielders. Even Team USA, with its modest resources, presented coach Bruce Arena with a quandary: Kasey Keller or Brad Friedel in goal...
...think one of you got a bigger one," a tribal chief told Treasury Secretary PAUL O'NEILL when traditional headgear didn't fit him as well as it did BONO, his companion on a trip to Africa. "No," said U2's singer, "just a bigger brain." The modest rocker, who has lent sparkle to the cause of African poverty relief, brought O'Neill on a 10-day fact-finding journey that started last week in Ghana. The unlikely pair will travel through South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia. O'Neill played the straight man; Bono did comic relief. O'Neill drilled...
...fields of Abu Dhabi, responds with a wry smile: "That's because we are poor." It's a stretch to call Rashid poor?he sports a new mobile phone and a watch-mounted digital camera?but in relative terms, he is right. Oman's oil reserves are modest compared with the rest of the gulf states', and many Omanis like Rashid work in the United Arab Emirates, lured by the better...
...enough to hold their proprietors. Rows of unlabeled glass bottles, filled with fragrant oils, are the basis for Omani perfumes. In the shops, Omani women, clad from head to toe in black, extend hennaed hands to select and combine their favorite scents. An Omani woman may be quiet and modest when she walks past, but her signature aroma can't be missed...