Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overlooking it all, on a hilltop, was the modest wooden home of the Navy's Pacific Fleet Command-the nerve center of the naval force which now rules millions of square miles of ocean. In a bare little cottage which he shared with two other officers lived Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. In the cottage next door, adjoining bedrooms were labeled: "Spruance Room," "Halsey Room...
...week got its first good look at Ike Eisenhower, top hero of the war. To the millions who saw him in person were added more millions who saw him in photographs and newsreels, or heard his pleasantly deep voice over the radio. The U.S. liked what it saw-a modest man, natural in everything he did; a kindly, common-sense man; a warrior who remembered that he was a citizen; a son of the Middle-West, unhardened by war, unspoiled by fame...
Admitting he knew little about his new job, modest Omar Bradley went off to Missouri, got a rousing reception at his native Moberly (pop. 13,000), was photographed with a cheering veteran of the War with Spain...
...Britain's inner defenses against Hitlerism, something the Führer himself would never have understood, was a modest little feature tucked in the back columns of the London Times. It was neither more nor less than a daily quotation, usually, but not always, from the oak-timbered British past, "a passage old and true [to] keep high the heart and fortify the mind." Samples...
...Modest, methodical Oscar II has a collaborator's temperament, as well as talent. If he quite lacks his grandfather's color ("I am rather uninteresting") he also lacks the old man's choler. His private life also lacks the gaudy touch. "I guess I have never been young enough," he confesses, "to enjoy night clubs. I don't understand what goes on after 1 a.m.-but I doubt if anything very profound is said." A family man (he has been married twice), he does not smoke, seldom drinks, spends as much time as possible...