Word: modestic
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McLoon has modest goals for the coming season...
Despite his own relatively modest background, Moynihan says the United States during the Depression era was still a “land of large opportunity...
...world not worried about terrorists. They don't have their troops everywhere; they don't have their naval vessels everywhere; they're not bothering other people; they're not intervening. They don't have a record of massive military destruction and intervention. Let's be a more modest nation...
...least a little skeptical about how a people who will use any excuse to shout "We're Number One!" at the top of their lungs will take to the vision of a modest, non-interventionist America that Zinn proposes. But the books of these three men, as flawed in their respective executions as they may be, ask powerful questions that all Americans would do well to ponder. In a country that is still obsessing over "how" the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon could happen, we might all be better off if we tried asking...
Whitehead is modest about his swift rise into the investment banking stratosphere, saying he would not have had the same success in today’s business world...