Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, at the company's annual meeting last spring, was a free-for-all brawl for control. The opposing factions tried to shout and push each other down, and held a tug of war with company records. They finally had to call a cop (to restore a modicum, of order) and go to court before the quarrel was temporarily settled in favor of the adamant management. But the management had had a bad scare...
...public thunderbolt of Cominform anathema to Tito's head. Zhdanov said that Thorez had not stuck close enough "to the basic and permanent principles of proletarian internationalism." As was clear from the rest of the letter, this Communist gobbledygook meant that Thorez was deemed guilty of substituting a modicum of French nationalism for 100% subservience to Russian nationalism, as interpreted by the Kremlin bosses...
...always welcome, particularly when it is appropriate, and a modicum of merde when skillfully handled imparts a zest to TIME'S fine flavor. However, it seems improbable that Jean Boewet [TIME, May 10], contemplating the "experts with briefcases," could have employed the immortal expletive of Cambronne...
Snow has kept the oversized squad indoors, forcing it to share its quarters with the track team and limiting practice to a modicum of fielding and batting, but the team should be hitting the wide open spaces of Soldiers Field at least a week before the start of the spring vacation, weather permitting...
...common answer to this is that those who do not take shortcuts are forced in preparing for an exam to have mastered most of the material in a course in order to pass, and that therefore the tutoring school should be made illegal, thus forcing everyone to do a modicum of normal studying...