Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retreated in search of the beautiful life. Thrilled when Great Grindle himself agrees to tutor her on the path that leads to "Infinite Oneness," Candy eagerly submits to the various exercises and lessons proposed. Naturally, the path cannot be followed until all "wordly apparel" is discarded. Candy, maidenly modest, objects, but who is she to argue with Great Grindle...
...Your theater critic wrote the only review of Burton's Hamlet worth reading [April 17]. TIME displays a sensitivity in the arts heretofore manifest only in journals of more modest circulation...
...this was only a modest claim to independence, it helped Pompidou's emerging political image. So does his knack for working out compromises between industry and the workers, who are besieging the inflation-ridden De Gaulle regime with demands for wage increases. In his increasingly frequent TV appearances, he is somewhat pedestrian, but also shows a certain folksy appeal. Watching him on the screen, De Gaulle himself once said appreciatively: "Good. Louis XVIII in modern dress." He was referring to the first Bourbon king restored to the throne after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a man who combined...
...whole service system of Harvard is predominantly underground," Harry told us. To support his statement he indicated the power conduit (a metal pipe of modest size) and the telephone lines (several thick black cables). It seemed to us that the whole service system of Harvard was also quite vulnerable to sabotage: an agent provocateur loose in the Tunnel could easily paralyze the University preparatory to leading a junta against it. We asked Harry whether unauthorized persons might wander in. "Rarely," he answered. "Occasionally, an outside contractor working in the Tunnel leaves a door open by mistake and a curious undergraduate...
...share of Wheeling Steel. Canada Dry is just the kind of company that Simon thinks can benefit from his brand of management, which is devoted to a constant search for change and improvement. "Canada Dry has a great name and a strong brand position," he says, "but earnings are modest...