Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modest Proposal. In St. Louis, the Globe-Democrat ran an advertisement: "Help wanted. Cigaret Girl - Gypsy Inn, 1100 S. Eighth. East St. Louis, Ill.; must bring own cigarets." Sidetracked. In Los Angeles...
...speech was a dedication rather than a proclamation, the dedication of a modest man to the service of his people. In closing, Harry Truman, devout Baptist, reached back to the Book of Kings for a prayer...
Bess Truman, whom Harry had met in Sunday School at Independence, Mo. when he was seven and she six, and had married 28 years later, was at the Trumans' modest five-room apartment at 4701 Connecticut Avenue. When she heard what her husband had to tell her, she wept. A few minutes later, with the Trumans' daughter (and only child), 21-year-old Mary Margaret, she left by a rear door. A White House car was waiting...
...Million Slaves? To those faced with the immense task of French reconstruction, Le Bosquel is only the beginning, modest but heartening...
These answers, according to General Eddy's poll, suit their husbands fine. A modest sampling of some 100 soldier-husbands in Eddy's corps showed that they were looking forward to exactly the same things...