Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apples used mostly for bland cider, can be counted. It has roughly 360,000 registered Democrats, 360,000 registered Republicans and 600,000 independents-and the analysts adore independents. Connecticut is small but heavily populated: at its widest stretch, it is less than 100 miles across; within its modest boundaries live some 2,500,000 people. And this year the candidates for major public office are tumbling all over each other as they travel the state...
...Head Cat." As a newshen, Marianne still has much to learn-and knows it. She once called Kennedy "the head cat of our Government." has a tendency to repeat herself. Her scoops are modest ones, and generally unidentifiable as such without the "exclusive" label that Hearst sometimes attaches to her copy, e.g., a Marianne story last month reporting that key Republicans, specifically Minority Leaders Dirksen and Halleck. had "pledged to support President Kennedy's present policy on Cuba...
...Movie Stars. A handsome, twice-divorced tycoon. Rudolph Oetker has built his huge empire on the modest baking powder fortune that he inherited...
...decision to reinstate a more modest form of tutorial grew out of a series of Faculty meetings of possible improvements of the senior year research programs in biology. These discussions, which were held in the Spring of 1961, also produced the "Plan Two for Concentration in Biology" that stresses biochemical sciences and has boosted undergraduate enrollment in the Department to all-time highs...
Claiming that the U.S. has a 6-1 edge over the Union in ready nuclear strike power, Piel asserted that only a modest-sized force is necessary to deter an any from striking first. He stated there is not, nor was there ever, any missile or bomber gap; and hinted that only "vested interests" keep giant industries devoted to armaments...