Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fate of student government at Harvard College may well be determined in a modest office on the second floor of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon...
California Democrat Pat Brown got a chilly reception as he addressed a joint session of the California legislature. Only when he called for higher salaries for legislators and annual, rather than biennial, legislative sessions, was there even modest applause. The reasons were obvious. Brown is pressing the legislature for new taxes to pay for increased state school aid, hardly likely to be popular with constituents back home. Moreover, a drastic, court-ordered reapportionment of the state senate threatens to cost many an incumbent senator...
During its hourlong flight, the F-111 climbed to a modest 27,000 ft. and flew at only 450 m.p.h., which is less than one-third of its planned 1,650-m.p.h. speed. But the revolutionary wing mechanism worked perfectly, and the airplane handled easily with wings in all positions. Before landing, Pilot Johnson pulled the trombone control backward. The wings extended again, and the plane touched down lightly at moderate speed. Many more flights will be necessary, but the crucial wing-sweeping maneuver was wholly successful, and it was completed 24 days ahead of official schedule...
...Poor to Pay. IDA gives credit only to countries so poor that they can not afford to pay even the World Bank's modest 5.5% interest rate, let alone the higher rates of conventional lending institutions. It charges no interest, gets only three-fourths of 1% annual service fee to cover its administrative costs...
...Eliot was modest, kind, immensely loyal to his friends. He was thought to be formidably reserved, but that was because he did not like casual chatter and hated to be lionized. Among close friends, he was unfailingly good company. His grave courtesy concealed astringent wit; he also liked jokes of the kind where the cushion, when sat on, makes a rude noise. He was tirelessly, patiently encouraging to young poets who wrote or sent manuscripts to him at Faber & Faber, the London publishing house where for many years he was a partner...