Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy on the plants. If they were not picked in a hurry, September rains would ruin the crop. In New Jersey an appeal for volunteers to unload freight had brought 2,000 volunteers in 48 hours (TIME, Sept. 6). Now the Alabama planters staged their own campaign, for a modest 400 men, women & children cotton pickers...
...about this & that, but quite often come up with a suggestion which even a brass hat can see is right." Thousands of soldiers in Major General Charles H. Corlett's command, arriving in the Aleutians for the occupation of Kiska, blinked with amazement at getting such apparently meek & modest talk from an Army publication. Reading on in the special 50-page pamphlet entitled Soldiers' Manual (and subtitled Every Man His Own Valet-Every Foxhole a Suite at the Waldorf}, they found some of the best common-sense advice yet gathered for men in this...
Farm-raised Pauline, who majored in physical education at Penn State ('42) and was badminton champion of the college, is no tomboy. Softspoken, modest, Pauline was prompted to step into her mannish role because she likes kids and knew what a letdown a football-less fall would be for them. Salina's grownups were pleased enough at being put on the map, but were somewhat skeptical of Pauline's prospects...
...time was far from ripe for practical action. London and Washington still stood on good diplomatic terms with Madrid. Unless they were ready to add intervention in Spain to their other problems, there was little they could yet do to bring to pass Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto's modest proposal: that the Spanish people, in accordance with the Atlantic Charter, be allowed freely to elect their own government...
Navy records call her PC-487. Navy men call her "The Little Fellow," and say it with affectionate pride. Like dozens of her sisters who do the monotonous patrol work of the war at sea. PC-487 is a modest, unspectacular little warship, about 170 ft. long, of 600 tons displacement. Her commander is a reserve lieutenant, chubby, ruddy W. Gordon Cornell, a Staten Islander...