Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countries of the Socialist community against any plots of aggressors." If Chou was impressed, he did not show it. To demonstrate his continued disdain for Khrushchevian wrong-think, he ducked around the back of Lenin's Tomb and paid a reverential visit to Stalin's modest grave outside the Kremlin wall...
More often than not, his cartoons appear on the editorial page, where they seem almost like modest postscripts to the regular editorial cartoon. A Berry panel never shouts. None of the characters are ever directly identified, and the point of the joke is sometimes kept as deliberately small as the cartoon itself, which runs two columns wide to the typical editorial cartoon's three columns. "I find if I draw large, there's a tendency to put in too much detail," says Cartoonist Berry, himself a bulky and heavily detailed 210-pounder who stands...
...G.T.U. started in a modest way: with two deans and one student, who flunked out. Now in the third year of operation, it has 24 doctoral candidates and a faculty of 54, drawn from the participating schools. Its students must meet the academic requirements of the nearby University of California and can enroll in university courses...
...Mushrooms. At 44, he makes more than $50,000 a year, but he lives conservatively in a modest house with his wife and four daughters. His father was a lineman for a power company in Waukegan, Ill., and his own education stopped at the high school level. He has never studied physics, chemistry, or any of the other primary disciplines of science fictioneering, but his imagination more than makes up. "Where do you get your ideas?" someone once asked him. Bradbury was eating a mushroom in a restaurant at the time. "Anywhere," was his answer. "There's a story...
...usual, it will take most union members more than a year to make up in new benefits what they lost in wages during the strike. The 306,000 G.M. workers lost more than $170 million, and payment of modest strike benefits depleted the U.A.W.'s $67 million strike fund by more than $40 million. The loss in buying power also depressed business in communities with heavy concentrations of G.M. plants, where retail sales slumped and loan applications rose. In Pontiac, Mich., where hundreds of auto trailers stood empty and desolate, a butcher in a U.A.W. neighborhood noted that...