Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...share the profits. It was not long before the new partner and his brother-in-law were carrying bundles of the phony bills to the post office and exchanging them for 5% treasury bonds. On the trail at last, the police tailed the pair to Bojarsky's modest home in Paris, found nothing in searching it until one cop tripped on the carpet, flipping the hidden switch that opened a secret trap door. There it all was-Bojarsky's carefully constructed pulp vats and printing presses, surrounded by hundreds of bills drying on polyester slabs. For 16 years...
...water supply for feeding a steam turbine to turn a generator, and many are the low-grade deposits that have remained untapped because it has become too expensive to mine the coal and ship it to distant markets. Now the U.S. Department of the Interior has made a modest $680,500 bet that Physicist Meredith Gourdine, 36, has found a promising answer to the dilemma...
...fire and flagons of wine. For Samuel Johnson, who according to legend used the Cheshire Cheese as both club and office, there was "nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced." In the shadow of the tavern there was also the more modest "publick house," whose clients came mainly from the neighborhood. Divided into a public and private saloon bar, the pub usually included a snack bar, called a "snuggery," selling such delicacies as toad-in-the-hole and steak-and-kidney...
...studying at Harvard. Mahidol died two years later, and Bhumibol, with his older brother Ananda and his sister, were taken back to Bangkok by his mother. After the 1932 coup, she moved them from the uncertainty of the capital to Switzerland, and there Bhumibol grew up in a modest villa in Lausanne, chauffeuring off each day to the Ecole Nouvelle de Chailly, where he learned English, French and German...
...France's soil, Balzac never really escaped his origins. Of life he demanded money, love and magic -the themes of all his books-and spent them faster than they came in. He dreamed of the $100,000 pineapple crop he would harvest from the slope of his modest villa in Ville-d'Avray, of fortunes in old Roman silver to be found in Sardinia-meanwhile hiding from creditors in the home of one of his married mistresses...