Word: modestic
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...Saturday evening, Harvard (1-1) soundly defeated Lehigh (0-3), 73-52, as the Mountain Hawks shot an abysmal 30 percent from the floor before a modest crowd at Lavietes Pavilion...
...feel a lot of pressure, from myself mostly," says the young director, in modest but confident tones. "I don't want 20 years from now for people to walk around and go, 'He's the guy who did "The Sixth Sense."' It should be, 'He's the guy who did "The Sixth Sense," "Unbreakable" and so on.' It shouldn't even be that. It should be, just say my name, and it represents a body of work...
Before November 1800, however, even though work was under way on the Capitol, there was yet little sense of a Federal City. The only evidence of habitation was about 600 modest houses strewn across the marshy but beautiful landscape, which had inspired L'Enfant as he worked at his drawing board in a dim room in Suter's Fountain Inn in Georgetown. The unlikely figure of Adams, embodying the presidency, would bring the spark of life to the new city simply by taking up residence in the house. And though the President's House still stood mostly silent and dark...
...retorted, "Welcome to the Senate, Senator Dole." Even West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who had opposed Daschle's initial ascent to leader, renominated him for the post in 1996. Said he: "I was totally wrong about this young man. He has steel in his spine, despite his reasonable and modest demeanor...
...many cases, though, the ground-based giants can find their own way through the universe. Geoff Marcy, for example, leader of the world's most prolific planet-hunting team, began his research at the relatively modest 3.5-m telescope at Lick Observatory in California. Then, in 1996, he moved most of his project to the Keck, with dramatic results. "We've discovered 35 planets orbiting sunlike stars so far," says Marcy, who holds joint appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. "And the majority of them have been with the Keck...