Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Children line up in huge labyrinths (or sneak out when they can) to visit the two, count 'em: 2, Santas. In the interests of gathering first-hand experience, one CRIMSON reporter joined in the fun. In response to her sincere requests for a modest number of presents, a heavily made-up Santa smiled coldly...
Orland M. Scott, vice-president and group executive of IBM, said the scientific activities of education and industry must complement each other. Calling IBM's contributions "modest" compared to those of the Harvard Faculty, he said that university scientists are able to carry on more theoretical research than their commercial counterparts who are committed to immediate, practical results...
...today it looks like a cross between Grandma's attic and a broken roller coaster. Dumbwaiters hesitantly carry materials from floor to floor through a mazelike production line. Mailing labels are typed and pasted by hand, and requests for catalogues are filed in shirt boxes. Pay is so modest that each change in the federal minimum-wage law has required an adjustment of the whole salary schedule...
When President Kennedy announced back in January that he expected a modest budget surplus of about $500 million in 1962-63, the few faint cheers were drowned out by a storm of skepticism. The President's expectations were based on more ifs than Rudyard Kipling had in his famous poem: if the economy improved its pace, if Government spending did not rise, if Congress enacted higher postal rates when the Administration wanted them, if the farm bill was passed and had a chance to cut costs. It was if, if, if-and hardly any of the ifs turned...
...water, and he has had a change of heart, possibly because of overexposure to what he calls "the forward-looking common supermarket jargon and high-minded greed." Said Osborne: "I, for one, am sick to death of all its ugly chromium pretense and am proud to settle for a modest, shabby, poor-but-proud LITTLE ENGLAND...