Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience believed him--he was all of those things and was just being modest. They waited for the Word from their prophet...
...Kremlin watchers, things were looking up. First the All-Union House of Fashion, arbiter of Russian couture, lift ed hemlines above the knee, and along with those modest Russian miniskirts took Courrèges to boot. Then the State Committee on Prices hiked the tags on a wide array of heavy industrial products, with increases ranging from 35% on metals to 75% on coal. Finally the Agriculture Ministry announced a bumper grain harvest for 1966 of some 160 million tons, the largest in Soviet history and up 40 million tons over last year's yield...
...Assembly's third highest vote getter. So did her calculated demeanor. "A woman must al ways be more careful than a man because she is being judged closer than he is," she explains. 'That doesn't mean you can't be Machiavellian. But be modest. They expect...
Deputy Will Do. Mme. Xa's brand of modest Machiavellianism has already made her one of the more powerful Deputies in the Assembly. She is speaker of the credentials committee and a member of the one on flood relief-the only two committees formed so far. When she demanded that all pregnant women be released from prison, the measure passed easily. When, in a burst of patriotic pontificating common to assemblies the world over, a draft resolution supporting the Vietnamese army at home and abroad was proposed, Mme. Xa raised her delicate eyebrows. '"Abroad?" she asked...
...BILL. It provides a modest $150 a month maximum for veterans who have put in more than 180 days' active service since Feb. 1, 1955, is now helping 260,000 students and expects to serve twice that number by next fall...