Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political party (10½ million members), it is also the largest association in the world of people pledged to puritanism (Indian brand). To join, one must give up liquor. If he entertains political ambitions, he must give up wearing anything but khadi (handspun cloth), and content himself with a modest salary. Recently the Congress press has been scandalized by rumors that Indian ambassadors abroad serve liquor at parties...
...Modest Boast. As the session broke up Christmas Eve in the ornate, damask-walled council room of the Pan American Union, all the delegates seemed satisfied. O.A.S. Secretary General Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia allowed himself a modest boast: "This is a little quicker than the U.N. Security Council...
...hope that Abdullah's words will be promptly translated into action." By last week, Abdullah's work of translation was making progress. Meeting in Jericho, 500 Palestine Arab leaders had proclaimed him "King of all Palestine," and demanded union with Transjordan. Cagey Abdullah took a modest line. He would consult with his government and other members of the Arab League. Last week his cabinet gave its consent, and this week Parliament voiced its unanimous approval. The rest of the Arab world howled treachery. Next to a strong Israel, a bigger and stronger Abdullah was the last thing they...
...anonymous Chinese Christian businessman, came a gift of $1,000,000 to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. This, the largest cash donation ever received by the board from a living donor, was to be used to build a settlement for retired Presbyterian missionaries. The gift, said its modest donor, was "in gratitude to God for my Christian education and life, and in appreciation of the service your missionaries have given China...
...program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest 2.5, has doubled in the last two weeks...