Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program as Gilbert Price. When he appeared on stage, I saw a fellow of fairly small frame, strikingly handsome, with dark brown eyes, a winning smile and shining white teeth. But the moment he started to sing, I was hardly conscious of anything else except The Voice. From that modest physique issued a radiant stream of ravishing beauty and expressivity, which, when the occasion demanded, expanded to so enormous a size as to seem almost a physiological impossibility...
Portland State is indeed a modest place. It was started in 1946 as an extension division of the state's higher education system to handle returning veterans who could not get into the established universities. Its site was Vanport, the sprawling federal housing development built for wartime workers on low marshland near the Columbia River. "The U by the slough," it was called. Two years later, the campus was washed into the river by a flood; only the students and 92 books were salvaged. Classes were temporarily housed in the abandoned downtown Portland administration buildings of the Oregon shipyards...
...balance-of-payments deficit is the least-understood major problem facing the nation today. Many of the businessmen most affected by it confess that they do not grasp all its vagaries and nuances. But they are convinced that when a relatively modest $3 billion deficit forces a nation with a $650 billion economy to reduce its role in international finance, then something is wrong with the world's bookkeeping...
...coffee, which the company was about to introduce with a "tiny flavor buds" campaign. Instant Maxwell bloomed. The company's coffee sales jumped from 10% of the U.S. market to a commanding 34% , brought in one-third of General Foods sales ($1.4 billion last year). Says Cook, a modest man in the kitchen: "I think instant Maxwell pulled me along with...
...Pendulum. Summoned to the parlor of her modest London home, Mrs. Groomkirby finds that Mr. Groomkirby has transformed it into a replica of an Old Bailey courtroom. "I thought as much," she says bemusedly, then steps into the dock to testify in her son's trial for murder. He has slain 34-or perhaps 43-people by striking them down while they laughed at his jokes. Complaints have been lodged, the judge informs her. And drat it, the lad wears only black...