Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cooking seems to have escaped me completely somehow. Nevertheless, I watch Julia Child's program every week, and then the following day, I run out and buy wire whisks, watercress, souffle pans and carbon-steel knives. I have also acquired a modest but impressive assortment of wines and exotic spices. Of course, I have never used any of these things. And I certainly would never have the courage to try one of her recipes. I throw the watercress out each time I clean the refrigerator...
...York, announced that the diocese was scrapping the ambitious Gothic plan drawn up in 1911 by Architect Ralph Adams Cram. He in turn had drastically revised the original Byzantine-cum-Romanesque church whose cornerstone was laid in 1892. Instead, the trustees of the diocese have approved a more modest program for completion submitted by the firm of Adams & Woodbridge. In place of the spire-topped 500-ft. Gothic tower that Cram envisioned at the crossing point of nave and transepts, the new design recommends a dome made of concrete louvers alternating with panels of colored glass. The transepts have been...
...intestinal epidemic of modest and unidentified source broke out at Harvard during the Thanksgiving holiday. Almost all of its victims have been residents of Houses served by Central Kitchen...
...Raynaud's victim who has long given up hope of getting any substantial relief, even those modest claims amount to hopeful talk...
...test, Julia's cooking was a bust. As a girl she was a tomboy in a well-to-do Pasadena, Calif., family of six-footers (both her sister and brother, like Julia, top 6 ft., making their mother modest in her boast: "I have produced 18 feet of children"). Julia was content to eat what the family cook served, learned her mothers complete cooking repertory: baking-powder biscuits and Welsh rabbit, and little else. The one time she tried to cook pancakes for breakfast, she recalls, "it took about an hour. It was a real mess...