Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many ways, Hubert Horatio Humphrey and Richard Milhous Nixon embody the cherished old ideals. They are "achieving Americans," men from modest Main Street beginnings who, through ambition and ability, rose to the U.S. Senate and to a place at the right hand of a President. Even when the easy life became available to them, it could not lure them from the burdens ?and ambitions?of public service...
...plea to save his foreign aid authorization. "It is madness to so jeopardize our own security and the orderly progression of the world." But House members had al ready unsheathed their sharpest knives and, in a callously contrived show of economy, hacked the aid authorization to bare bones. The modest $2.9 billion Administration request, smallest in the aid program's 21-year history, was cut by nearly $ 1 billion before being passed by a 228-to-184 vote...
...return, Thieu can offer only modest progress since his December meeting with Johnson in Canberra. Thieu's new Premier Tran Van Huong has not succeeded in knitting a tangle of political factions into a coherent progovernment coalition, and a promised drive against corruption has not yet gained momentum. But a mobilization of South Vietnamese manpower may be ahead of schedule: instead of 135,000 new Vietnamese troops whose pay, arms and equipment the U.S. had agreed to supply, Thieu will request weapons for 200,000 men, to boost the strength of Viet Nam's armed forces...
...obvious admiration, Chief Judge Paul Mouzon studied two Guino statuettes displayed in court. And when the courtroom debate finally ended, he asked Paris Art Dealer Alfred Daber to spend up to six months studying the essential question: Do the disputed works bear Guino's "personal stamp, even a modest one," or can they be considered "as belonging entirely to Auguste Renoir in spite of Guino's skill and dexterity"? The final decision will presumably be based on Daber's artistic critique...
Back in 1849, when Henry Charles Harrod opened his shop purveying tea, soap and candles in Knightsbridge Village, highway robberies were still common in the area. Today, Knightsbridge is one of London's swankiest sections and the most visible evidence of the tea merchant's modest business venture, a domed and terra cotta Victorian version of a Spanish castle, stands right in its midst. "Just about every visitor to London goes to Harrods," boasts the store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace...