Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desire to push back the boundaries that prevailed. He has a streak of romanticism, religion, patriotism. He is not the cold, calculating type." So Brainerd Holmes sold his Moorestown, N.J., home, moved his family (wife and two teen-age daughters, Dorothy, 17, Katherine, 13) to a modest house in Washington...
...life production, whose scale somehow was less and less appropriate to the grand stories the movies tried to tell as it grew bigger and bigger. So that the spectacular biblical epics, for example, could never suggest the dimensions of the Christ story with anything like the power of the modest He Who Must Die. But if, in fact, the old Hollywood is passing, El Cid is as fine a note for it to go out on as one could wish...
...porch can expect 12.7 more years of life. He has money, or at least a modest income. The 17 million Americans over 65 have an aggregate annual income of $32 billion-nearly $9 billion from social security; $5.3 billion from private sources such as interest, dividends, rents, etc.; $11 billion from retainers or consultation fees, odd jobs and other employment; the rest from annuities, life insurance, public aid, company and Government pensions. And their total income will be increasing as the oldest generations (who tended by and large to depend on relations for support) die out, and as the effect...
...fact, the old in general are less afraid of dying than of contracting a long and expensive illness that would make them a disastrous burden to their families or force them into the charity wards. People who might be able to live reasonably well on a modest income do not dare to spend it, feel compelled instead to scrape and save every penny against the day that they may fall...
...designed eventually to provide some 6,750 units. Along with their apartments, Leisure Worldlings are supplied with free drugs, 24-hour visiting-nurse service, laboratory facilities, and a staff of ten fulltime doctors and 26 registered nurses-all at a cost of roughly $100 a month after a relatively modest down payment...