Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief glance at official records in the State House would indicate otherwise. Although the disclosure law requires that candidates report television and radio expenditures every two weeks during their campaign, Senator Kennedy's reports include no such expeditures until the second half of November when he records the modest...
...Action? Lana Turner, that's who. She plays a bride who makes book for her horseplaying husband, Dean Martin, in this modest attempt to improve an unpromising breed: the formula farce...
Admittedly the force de frappe is a modest operation and one that could swiftly be knocked out of the air, even when, by 1965, the French hope to have 350 planes capable of carrying atomic weapons. De Gaulle concedes that his nuclear weaponry will never match the gargantuan and lethal stockpiles of Russia and the U.S. But he thinks that it is big enough and murderous enough to give any potential aggressor pause-and besides...
...question. Nor is its integrity . . . [But] have the Americans paused to reflect that an alliance in which all the advanced and sophisticated technologies were left to one of the partners, and the rest were relegated to supply a complement of conventional arms in war, and in commerce a modest contribution of Scotch whisky and compact cars . . . would not ul timately succeed in retaining the loyalty of European electors...
...best-kept secret of the curious world of American publishing is that this country is in the middle of a modest literary boom. It is not a renaissance; the ages preceding this one have not been shamefully dark. Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius. But there is a gentle swell of hope and good prose...