Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quos could take weeks or months, depending on Hanoi's mood. If the Communists are indeed convinced that they have brought the U.S. to its knees, the talks could dissolve over that initial issue, for Johnson is determined not to end the air raids without some concession, even a modest one, from Hanoi. And the U.S. can argue that Hanoi already enjoys by far the better of the bargain. While 79% of the North is now free of bombing, Rusk noted last week, "not one square mile in South Viet Nam has any assurance of immunity from attacks...
Compared with the marches of yesteryear, the antiwar demonstrations that sizzled and, in most cases, fizzled from New York to San Francisco last week were downright duds. Only 400 marchers turned up under drizzly skies in Washington's Franklin Park, where their modest demeanor, punctuated with a scattering of McCarthy buttons, struck an odd contrast to the motley of the Pentagon marchers last October. Boston's 500 demonstrators scarcely disrupted the weekend traffic...
...minute gesture or item, such as the pencil reproduced in actual size on this page, can sometimes acquire great value. That is just what happened when a voluntary organization asked G.I.s in Viet Nam what their most-wanted items were. Those needs were modest-such things as a pair of dry socks and some writing material. TIME provided the tiny pencil, which the Christian Reform Laymen's League included in 200,000 packets to Viet Nam. Surprisingly, the minipencil is serving purposes far beyond postcard writing. Its wooden shaft, wrote one Marine, is being used to clean the hard...
...world's leading unperson celebrated his 74th unbirthday, as a hand ful of friends and relations gathered at the modest dacha outside Moscow to pay their respects to Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev...
...generation on isolated farms where music is about the only recreation that doesn't smack of sin. The group that won the $25 prize as the best oldtime band, the Blue Ridge Boys of Winston-Salem, N.C., learned all of their music "from relatives" and are duly modest about their accomplishments: asked why he though the band had won, Banjoist Paul Idol replied Well, we all started on a tune exactly at the same time, and we stopped exactly at the same time...