Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years later, Lyndon Johnson appointed her to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She and her husband, who now serves as counsel to a state commission investigating the California Supreme Court, live in a modest, ranch-style house in Pasadena. Their only child, Steven, 26, is a medical student at the University of California at Irvine...
...crooked linoleum corridors of the second floor of the Jefferson Physics Laboratory, you come upon an unassuming, airy, office, distinguishable from all others only by its lazily opened door. Above the nameplate--"Prof. S. Glashow"--somebody's placed a gun control sticker, and above that a cockeyed "congratulations"--modest. as if in celebration of a birthday...
...normal administrative way," in the case of high level policy issues, is usually the frequent meetings between Bok and Horner. Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe and nominal secretary to the Committee says, "There haven't been any issues that the Presidents couldn't solve." Horner is less modest about this. "If President Bok and I are doing our various administratvie jobs well," she says, "a sign of a successful agreement is that the Joint Policy Committee...
...must follow a strict dress code in classes; men are required to wear shirts and ties and women must wear skirts or dresses. To pick up their monthly meal tickets, men must get the length of their hair checked, while women are required to wear brassieres and skirts of "modest length"--with a maximum slit of three inches. Culottes, decollete dresses and spaghetti straps are forbidden under the code, as are ankle bracelets because "they make the guys think you're from the wrong side of the tracks," Penny Petr, an ORU sophomore, jokes. "I know it sounds terrible...
...want to present a good appearance in behavior and dress," Clyburn says. "Behavior follows along with clothing. You act like more of a lady when you look like one," she adds. Because ORU students are trying to exemplify the life of Christ, they maintain good grooming and modest behavior as part of their witness, she explains...