Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the Harvard Athletic Association can schedule only Tufts College to face the Crimson eleven next year, it should at least add a modicum of interest to the game: award the Fietcher School of Diplomacy to the winner of the Harvard-Tufts contest and thereby settle the position of that school. Robert E. Ausnit...
...employees got their jobs back; in others, dismissal was the end result. But in virtually none of the cases was anything accomplished by the loyalty boards, with their mass of rules and regulations and their fumbling procedures, that could not have been done by an individual bureaucrat with a modicum of common sense and the simple right to hire and fire in the interests of national security. And a great deal of time and money, not to mention human agony and governmental dignity, could have been saved...
...film has its suspense and even a modicum of mystery, and surely more than a fair share of good, snappy lines. But what most distinguishes it are the fantastic creations of Messrs. Price and Webb. They, much more than the much-heralded theme song, are the haunting quality of Laura...
...nursery-school level. But discipline? Ah, that's a dirty word and used only to describe the old Prussian army . . . But the greatest loss of all has been good, old-fashioned common sense. Without this, the genius becomes stupid in society, and the stupid, with just a modicum of it, can raise his I.Q. . . . Today, junior's hotspot is no longer his little red bottom. It's his little psyche that gets all the attention . . . and, up to now, no one has ever given any thought to what all this has been doing to mother...
...childlike quality that is perfect") and Broadway's Barry Nelson "He's the handsome, rugged American male"). Like most family comedies, Husband is long on character, short on plot, and played for laughs. It does buck a few popular trends: unlike most TV husbands, Nelson has a modicum of intelligence and, unlike most TV wives, Joan is some distance ahead of the usual lovable idiot...