Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marble Collegiate Church invited him to conduct its choir on the side. So far, husky, blue-eyed Robert Shaw has stuck to choruses, never attempted to conduct a symphony orchestra. But symphonic bigwigs from Leopold Stokowski to Sergei Koussevitzky have offered to teach him how. Self-consciously modest, yet with a touch of the fire-&-brimstone revivalist, he refuses to be rushed. Says he: "Up until the past year I felt more like a cheerleader than a choral director. Dawgonnit! I don't feel I have any manifest destiny...
Mount Allegro is the modest, unassuming, sensitive record of a young U.S. writer of Sicilian descent. It is no towering peak in U.S. letters, but readers who make the climb can get a clear view of a relatively unexplored part of the native scene- America's "Little Italys" and the people who live in them...
...been assured, a place at the tables where United Nations high strategy is made. He presented his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt, met the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King. He set up headquarters in a modest brick house on Embassy Row, covered its walls with maps, got ready to proffer his precious information on the war in the East...
...purest power and emanation sent by God to this earth to fight the evils of materialism and atheism, and to bring revelation to the poor soul of mankind. That is why, although standing extra muros [outside the walls], I have made it my purpose to support with my modest and humble abilities the struggle which the Catholic Church fights against those evils and for the divine truth...
...Jack McCullough puts it now, "We didn't know what couldn't be done when we went into the business so we went ahead and did it." He is also modest about Bill Eitel's and his first experience with making vacuum tubes (when Heintz & Kaufman turned them loose on an order for some from an R.C.A. competitor). "Bill burned his fingers a little and broke a lot of glass," says Jack, "but he finally came out of the basement with a vacuum tube...