Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finland had won its war with Russia last winter, its hero would have been Red-hating Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. As a loser its hero was stocky President Kyösti Kallio, who was so modest that he shunned interviews, who clicked his heels and bowed low before reporters, who wore a knife in his belt as most Finns do, and who, the war over, turned resolutely to the task of rebuilding his country...
Most of the group had graduated from college in their teens, got modest jobs as teachers, writers, doctors, lawyers, secretaries, housewives. Most successful: Dr. Eugene Lozner, 26, an authority on nutrition. None was unemployed. But they had many a complaint of social maladjustment...
...movie industry counts a dozen legitimate producers in place of the 38 operating during the bonanza days. Leading the list is Grovas-Oro Films, bossed by Jesus Grovas, a veteran with 25 years' experience in the Paramount and M. G. M. distributing offices in Mexico City. Modest, unassuming Grovas is an expert on foreign distribution. His production specialist is a young lawyer, Juan Bustillo Oro, noted for his knack of sensing the current appetite of Latin-American cinemaudiences. Grovas-Oro's En Tiempos de Don Porfirio (In the Times of Diaz) broke all box-office records for Mexican...
...profitable foreign and domestic orders on its books, the Vultee Corp. can hardly be said to be struggling with its back to the budget wall in its altruistic and purely patriotic effort to save the world from Nazism. And the wage increase requested by the union appears modest indeed when the wage scales of other automotive and aircraft plants, are compared with the prevailing rates at Downey, Cal. In short, the C.I.O. strike is a justifiable attempt by the working man to better his living standard and share more equitably in the cutting of the defense melons...
What he did was far more modest, sensible and honest. Apparently, however, in the eyes of numerous people he made a gaffe, although it is difficult not to make one whatever you do when some 20 million of your fellow citizens are out waiting to scalp you. If it was a gaffe, at least it was not an ungenerous or unpatriotic...