Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats voted for moderates and liberals, but those were split up among four rival candidates in the primary. Procaccino, the one Democratic law-and-order candidate, gained nomination with a bare 33%. A swing of a couple of percentage points the other way-or even the least modicum of unity among the liberals-would have changed the outcome...
...Shay, a staffer at the nearby National Trust for Historic Preservation, organized a one-day paint-in by a group of Washington high school art students. The result was a half-mile mural in which green trees, pink pigs, pilgrims, bare-breasted Indian maidens and parades mingle with a modicum of social sentiment. "Stop the war-Jesus and Allah could save," reads a message in the middle of some blazing red, white and blue stripes. Nixon did not object; Tricia was even deputized to walk down on the day of the paint-in and add a few dabs herself...
...offered $7,000 for one fight. Most of Spain's 193 active matadors, however, have grumblingly accepted 25% fee cuts in return for comfortable bulls and a guaranteed minimum number of appearances. At the same time, they have reduced the ritual you loved so much to a modicum of spasmodic passes. The capes that once came alive in flashing veronicas across the sunlight are seldom used today...
...never challenged the options of the faculty. Always in mind was the awareness that I was on campus by qualification, not by inherent right. In short, I went to college to change myself and not the world. In doing so, I achieved freedom from ignorance and a modicum of knowledge. Maybe that was revolt...
...freedom of the body now, I hope to make the moderate, right degree of freedom more acceptable in the future." Yves St. Laurent seconded the motion two years later with his show-and-tell dresses. With body stockings available to control the unruly flesh and provide a modicum of modesty, women who had snickered at Gernreich thought again, and looked to the future. It came sooner than even Gernreich had expected, though the new nudity, as he explains it, "is a natural development growing out of all the loosening up, the re-evaluation of values that's going...