Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming from the bridge, that seemed a peculiarly euphoric position report. Even the modest program of social reform that Johnson outlined faces-as he knows only too well-serious trouble getting safely through a restive, frugally inclined Congress...
Apart from their rank in the royal household (just above St. James's Palace caretaker) and their pay ($232.80 a year), the most modest thing about Britain's poets laureate has been their state poetry. In the age of the Hollow Man, task-basket verse celebrating a monarch's birthday or the puberty of a prince sounds at best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged...
...scholars are recommending this small gesture not in the hope of thereby bringing the war to a speedier end, but rather as a token concession to mollify the anti-war movement here at home: "Nothing would do more to strengthen American support for our basic position," they write, than modest de-escalation...
...series of U.S. shots. He has proposed rescheduling a modified 1971 Mariner shot to Mars, now scrapped because of the lack of funds, and following it with five additional Mariner-type flights to Mars and Venus by 1976. In addition, he has asked for the revival of a relatively modest Voyager program that would place two sophisticated craft in orbit around Mars in 1973 and send two additional orbiters and two soft-landers to the same planet aboard a single Saturn 5 rocket in 1975. Time is already beginning to run out for some of the scientific teams so painstakingly...
With less money available to borrow, all sections of the economy will feel the pinch. But as the Fed intended, it will be modest. Even the stock and bond markets, normally the first to react strongly to tighter money, took the news without a noticeable tremor because both had been expecting...