Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sedans, Jaguar Cars Ltd.'s first newly designed big sedans in ten years. A bustling British maker of luxury sedans and speedy sports cars, Jaguar has become Britain's most consistently successful post-war automaker by virtue of its ability to produce high-quality cars at relatively modest prices...
Earlier, Reid mentioned that the United States could find lessons in Israel's foreign aid and policy towards developing nations. African nations have turned to Israel, said the Ambassador, to avoid taking sides in the cold war. They want to seek aid and advice from a smaller, modest country like Israel, considered more the equal of the African states...
...said yesterday that "the proposals are modest," but action on them "may help the Massachusetts political situation...
Prescience & Authority. Free of all pressures, even economic (the university meets its modest annual deficit), the magazine has flourished handsomely. Its contents are widely reprinted in anthologies, textbooks and the nation's press. Such is Review's prestige that authors whose bylines command healthy fees elsewhere send unsolicited manuscripts to the Review-which pays them next to nothing ($75-$300). And since it can afford to be, the Review is singularly difficult to please...
...Most Modest Venus. The earliest work is by James Peale, the brother of the more famous Charles Willson Peale...