Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...market turned down again on the final trading day, with the industrial average losing 4.40 points to close the week at 787.69 for a modest 7.13-point gain. Still, a drop is traditional before holiday weekends, when professionals lighten their risk by lightening their holdings...
...Modest Milestone" [Aug. 19] notes Senator Dirksen's opposition to the fair-housing bill and the concern that civil rights legislation may affect the right to sell property to whomever one chooses. Let me put this "right" in focus in the light of my experience, which convinces me that federal laws have become as necessary to protect free trade in property as to protect free suffrage in Mississippi and Alabama...
...gold-trimmed Marmon limousine. He made and spent $6,000,000 in five years, and then his secret got out - a wife and five children. The fans faded, the 1929 crash wiped out what little he had saved, and he spent the rest of his life earning a modest living from radio soap operas and TV guest appearances...
...that came out of the House last week as "an important new milestone" toward racial justice. In a sense, that is so. Even though the measure is far less stringent than many state laws, a federal law naturally has far more impact. Nevertheless, the bill is at best a modest milestone, a halting start toward ending what Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver rightly calls the "most stubborn and universal of the Negro's disadvantages...
...Love My Mother." The evening before his trip to the tower, Whitman sat at a battered portable in his modest brick cottage. Kathy, his wife of four years (they had no children), was at work. "I don't quite understand what is compelling me to type this note," he began. "I've been having fears and violent impulses. I've had some tremendous headaches. I am prepared to die. After my death, I wish an autopsy on me to be performed to see if there's any mental disorders." He also wrote: "I intend to kill my wife after...