Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite director (Edward G. Robinson) has summoned him to play a bit part. But his boom companion is not really his bust friend. When the actor arrives in Rome he finds the part, if there ever was one, gone. Jolted, he pulls himself together and takes a modest job in the dubbing room. But all at once the screenqueen (Cyd Charisse) who drove him to distraction and destruction turns up in his hotel and starts tormenting him again. Desperate, he soothes his shattered nerves with a dose of nature's own narcotic (Dahlia Lavi), and when the director...
...government records and power to investigate based or autocratic official decisions, as well as inequities in the law. To be known officially as the Parliamentary Commissioner for Investigations, he will be able to take action on his own or on the complaint of any citizen who, for a modest fee ($2.80), seeks redress from unfair treatment by officialdom...
Slim's vivid, modest account of the Burma campaign, Defeat into Victory, is already reckoned a minor masterpiece of war reporting. His new Unofficial History of assorted lesser campaigns in a 48-year army career boosts his reputation as a soldier who can reconstruct battles as brilliantly as he fought them...
...most middle-income Americans, summer usually meant merely a hotel holiday-until recently. Today, more and more have their own vacation houses, and more brains, taste, enthusiasm-and careful budgeting-are going into them than into almost any other field of architecture. The second houses range from modest cabins in the woods to elegant retreats that cost anywhere from a few thousand dollars to $75,000 or more. They may be on the seashore, in the mountains, on a pond, or simply on the most convenient spot of land available for its owner's means. There are already more...
...more modest of the second houses are often used only on weekends, but the great majority become summer-long retreats (or, for many, winter retreats) where the children grow up for three months, mother is released from the tedium of city or suburban life, and dad, after rushing out of his office at 5 on Friday and making the trek by auto, train or boat (or a combination of all three), can take his leisure for at least a few days in sylvan surroundings. It is no matter that he must often drain his bank account to carry the second...