Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modest Man. Harry Truman is the man in the grey suit, usually double-breasted. His college education consists of a brief spell at the Kansas City School of Law. He is an inconspicuous man with thin lips, steel-rimmed glasses, flatly combed grey hair, and a flat, not unpleasant Missouri twang...
Last week that business was a bedlam of deals, counterdeals and rumors. Over all the excitement hung the invasion threat of Marshall Field's department-store millions. He had stumbled on what book men have pondered for a decade: that by publishing's relatively modest standards, there is big money in cheap, mass-distributed books...
Despite destruction, disease, famine and continued German shelling, the outlook for the Warsaw patriots under their pseudonymous commander Bor, now promoted to Major General, was improving. Crossing the Vistula under enemy fire from the bluffs, Russian units carved out a modest bridgehead on the west bank, made contact with Bor's forces...
...room mansion outside London, Albania's King Zog and his half-American Queen Geraldine held modest court but kept a sensitive ear cocked Balkanwards. Zog was dead set on going home. Said he: "Whether I'm King or not, Albania is my fatherland...
...gentle, neglected child next door. Both get into bad company (Bonita Granville and some able supporters). Both "have ugly moments with their parents and at a drinking joint, and in an attempt at larceny, both are redeemed through a mellow juvenile-court judge and through kinfolk who, on a modest scale, set up every delinquency-preventive, from a kindergarten to machinist's training...