Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoping to keep up with the hot spirit of independence that is racing through the Congo like fire in dry bush, Belgium is holding elections there in December to offer a modicum of local self-rule, as a forerunner of a promised national government by Africans in 1964. But Congolese Africans, in a land 99% black, are impatiently several jumps ahead of the process...
...postpone a summit. The first is a fundamental disagreement with Britain and the U.S. over what a summit should be. Macmillan, in particular, talks of a series of summits, none of which would be make-or-break. De Gaulle, who believes that familiarity breeds contempt and that a certain modicum of mystery is essential to governing, sees the summit as a single 'grand encounter" that must be "carefully prepared"; as he expressed it in a communiqué last week, there should be an effective reduction of tension before a summit...
Still, the opinion around the practice field is that "you can never tell about Columbia." The Lions have several exchange students on their roster, many with considerable individual talents. As a result, they usually display an unpredictable "razzle-dazzle" offense, with fancy dribbling, spectacular shooting, and, inevitably, a modicum of teamwork...
...Harvard graduates are socially critical people, and trite though it may sound, a rudimentary knowledge of science helps provide insight in dealing with political and social issues which scientific developments continually thrust upon us. Just as important, however, is that Harvard's claim to turn out graduates with a modicum of education seems only justified if students are introduced to the basic approaches of science...
...splashy February, found examples from the East Coast to the West (see color page). Arranged in such all-encompassing categories as "The Land and the Waters," "Light, Sky and Air" and "Cycles of Life and Season," they make a handsome array of abstract art that seems to add a modicum of rhyme and season to what had hitherto seemed merely decorative or chaotic...