Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parachute unit dropped there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes, its luxury hotels, meager beach, its dreams of gambling and fish, yachts and flowers still belonged to the Germans...
General Winfield Scott died poor. General U.S. Grant lost his modest stake in a deal with a crooked partner, pledged sabers and other mementos to raise cash and was only able to recoup by writing his memoirs...
...Hunter Hunted. In June, the Nazis claimed to have sunk 312,000 tons of Allied shipping-a far cry from the mad March days of 1942 and 1943, when they claimed 900,000 or more. But even this relatively modest claim was a thousand percent exaggeration. In other words, sinkings actually were under 30,000 tons...
...house of L. D. Owens in Sausalito, Calif, (see cut), designed by San Francisco's Gardner A. Dailey, is a fine example of the flourishing California school of modernists. A modest wooden structure, it is planned "like a wide-angle camera" to take utmost advantage of the frequently befogged Sausalito daylight, has clear glass over half its front and rear elevations...
Georgia's grey Walter F. George had a considerably more modest plan to cushion the U.S. worker against a postwar depression. He proposed that each state fix its own scale of unemployment compensation (which at present ranges from $2-a-week minimum in Alabama to $22-a-week maximum in Connecticut), and that the states continue to foot the bill. The Federal Government would step in only if a state could not meet all payments; then it would lend, not give funds...