Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demanded: "What is the use of being a famous race and nation if at the end of the week you cannot pay your housekeeping bill?" He was a devastating critic of the Socialist ministers who were busily dismantling Empire and clamping grey austerity on the land: "Attlee ("A modest man, and I know no one with more to be modest about"), Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps ("There, but for the grace of God, goes God"), and of course Health Minister Aneurin Bevan ("Minister of Disease...
When a northeast wind finally blew down the gulch, Boyer pressed the button. A cloud of grey smoke rose up with a ball of fire at its heart; out of it spouted flashes of light like giant Fourth of July sparklers. Observers heard a loud bang and felt a modest shock wave. As the cloud began to dissipate, three Air Force bombers swooped into it, collecting air samples. Then men wearing respirators and full safety suits stepped cautiously within 200 yds. of ground zero. Kiwi had disappeared. Nothing was left on the seared site but the railroad car with...
...register of journalistic recognition, the City News Bureau of Chicago makes only a modest mark. It is an unsung news-gathering cooperative, started 75 years ago by the city's daily newspapers, and it is still wholly dependent on them and the 15 Chicago radio and TV stations that meet its bills. C.N.B.'s 40 reporters start at coolie wages of $65 a week and do coolie tasks. They take pollen counts every summer day and hourly temperatures the year around. They record marriage licenses, divorces, births, deaths and the sordid minutiae of police blotters. They never...
...Harvard Student Council in 1961-1962, I should like to protest any enlargement of the powers of the HCUA. Since the HCUA constitution was written in the fall of 1961. I am familiar with the purposes that the HCUA was designed to serve. It was to be a modest forum of student opinion, free because of its modesty from attempted abuses of its power for personal ends. Splitting the HCUA into two organizations is a natural outgrowth, reflecting the two things a student organization can do; channelling occasional student protests to the administration and serving as a source...
...House, whom he would hardly know. The people who would run all too often would want to use the Presidency for their own purposes. The election would be democratic in form but not in fact. Thus these new proposals would raise more problems than they would solve. Far more modest organizations such as those which are now suggested would be better. Jack D. Malloy...