Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fragile Existence. The goals for 1966 are relatively modest. The campaign will center on four priority areas (see map). Ky hopes to clear and hold 900 new hamlets, consolidate government control in 1,000 already cleared villages, build 2,251 new classrooms, 568 miles of road, 57 dams, 148 bridges, and dig 118 miles of canal. Equally important is training more cadres, and that will take time. At present there are 22,838 trained men and women in the field, and by year's end, another 20,000 or so will join them. But at least 440,-000 will...
These are modest money savers as budget totals...
...Modest & Meticulous. The Wildcats owe their sharpest claws to the fact that they have finally learned what Rupp modestly calls "the Kentucky system." Freely translated, it means run, run, run and never, never miss. A perfectionist rather than an innovator, Rupp decries such newfangled tactics as the zone press defense which he sometimes uses but insists on calling a "stratified, transitional hyperbolic paraboloid." He relies on ten offensive plays, which his team practices with a devotion to duty unseen since the Spartans of ancient Greece...
...traditional unit-rule system by which a candidate gets all of a state's electoral vote regardless of how small his popular plurality. Thus a nominee could still conceivably get a majority of the nationwide popular vote and yet lose the election. However, since it would make modest improvements without involving drastic change, there is a fair chance that this amendment will win the two-thirds majorities in Congress necessary to send it to the states for ratification...
Nearly 2,000 guests paid a modest $15 a ticket for the ostensible purpose of welcoming O'Donnell home-even though he returned from Washington nearly a year ago. Bobby and Teddy Kennedy were there. Dave Powers, White House jester during the Kennedy years, served as master of ceremonies. Benjamin Smith, who was J.F.K.'s Harvard roommate and later warmed the U.S. Senate seat to which Teddy Kennedy was elected, was on display. Others on the dais included Andy Hatcher, a former White House press aide, and Dick Goodwin, a Kennedy speechwriter who was drafted by Lyndon Johnson...