Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami Beach in the first round of the National Clay Courts Championships, and then because of his poor showing was fired from the 1962 Davis Cup team by Captain Robert Kelleher. In the Clay Courts men's finals, Missouri's Chuck McKinley gave U.S. prestige a modest boost by trouncing the top foreign seed, Australia's Fred Stolle...
...movement provoked a Trafalgar Square riot with anti-Semitic speeches two weeks ago, a pro-Labor country squire, Lord Walston, wrote the London Observer an angry letter calling for extensive laws to curb excesses in public speech. Replying a week later, mischievous Satirist Evelyn Waugh, 59, penned his own modest proposal to the lord. Wrote Waugh: "May I commend to him a group whose interests, I am sure, lie near his heart: his own peers? . . . They have, like the Jews, been the objects of frequent, atrocious attack. They are now held up continuously to hatred and contempt in newspapers...
...Willis Robertson said it looked like "an assembly of wigwams," and Congressman Errett P. Scrivner demanded to know why Congress should appropriate more than $3,000,000 for so many spires when one spire per church had usually been sufficient in the past. The cost cutters won a modest victory: the 19 spires in the original design were reduced...
...Spain's new Vice Premier often call him Facha -a Castilian expression implying "What a sight!" Though he is a dandy in his uniform, Agustin Munoz Grandes has never liked the pomp of his office as chief of Spain's General Staff, and has remained a relatively modest man. He regularly attends soccer games in Madrid dressed in sports clothes more suitable to a workman; he and his wife live in a small, unpretentious apartment, and he rolls his own small black cigarettes. Unlike other Cabinet ministers who tool around Madrid in chauffeur-driven Cadillacs and Mercedeses, Munoz...
...Next day the rally spread to New York: the Dow-Jones industrial average opened nearly 16 points above the previous day's close, and trading volume more than doubled to 7,120,000 shares. But by the end of the week, volume subsided to a modest 3,380,000 shares, and the Dow-Jones average settled back to 590.19, a gain of about 14 points for the week as a whole...