Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fahey's new beau, Scanlan, and her sister Kathleen who on Saturday, June 29, went to Fahey's modest third-floor walkup after Anne Marie failed to keep a dinner date. They were struck by strewn groceries and shoe boxes and a blinking answering machine, things the compulsive Fahey wouldn't have tolerated. When grilled by police, Capano admitted to the affair and called Fahey unpredictable and "airheaded." In other words, just the type to disappear without a trace...
...clerks in a modest Budapest store detest each other at work, yet carry on a passionate love affair through the mail. Brattle Theatre...
...left, lying under a small government-issue marker, wasn't Norman Cota, the general who on D-day rallied the scattered American invasion force on Omaha Beach and pushed it past the German defenses; Robert Mitchum played him in The Longest Day. A hundred yards away, under a similarly modest headstone, rests Alonzo H. Cushing, who commanded the federal battery at Gettysburg that stood at the very point Pickett aimed his charge. Cushing, twice wounded, stayed at his guns, firing double canister at the converging Confederates until a third shot got him. Right behind him is buried Judson Kilpatrick...
...defender of liberal values. His most famous and influential essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), divided humankind into those who have one big idea and those who have many smaller ones. Berlin's hedgehogs included Plato and Dante; among the foxes he named Aristotle and Shakespeare. Although too modest to make such a claim for himself, Sir Isaiah was one of the century's most eminent foxes...
...where, in both places, it is undeniably lucrative to be bullish, is that Monday was the mistake; Tuesday set things right. The believers in this sort of "new economy" school see the sell-off as an overreaction to an economic slowdown in Asia, a development that heralds only a modest drag on the U.S. economy and the earnings of U.S. companies...