Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grandma died suddenly at the age of 76. Courtney's mother died four years later. Courtney and his father lived alone in their modest frame house, until one night last fall when the house caught fire and burned down...
...patient was suspected of heart disease. But, because she was fat, female and modest, the doctor could not put his ear to her chest-and how else could he listen to her heart? Dr. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec rolled a sheet of paper into a tube and held it against her chest. The heart noises came through perfectly to his respectfully distant...
...great man-for a day. But he was old from years in prison, sick with ulcers and jaundice. He had not worn his martyrdom well; he broke with modest Warren K. Billings, who was convicted with him and who somehow was never regarded as a martyr; he was estranged from his wife; labor people found him selfish and conceited...
...Ambassador and Mrs. Winant took a modest four-room flat in London, stood on the roof watching the brutal bombing attacks of 1941's spring. Often he walked all night through the streets when bombers were overhead, talking to the people...
That the flame of patriotism, unless carefully hedged, bursts into a roaring, uncontrollable fire, has been driven home to us on several occasions. At the modest soda fountain where we recently had our afternoon tea our request for a lump of sugar was countered by the aggressive inquiry whether we didn't know there...