Word: modicum
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...march right into riot sticks and gas cannisters, why do we expound on genocide abroad and corporate oligarchy at home if not for "them?" Is it worth it, we ask, to contemptuously thumb our nose at the avenues to wealth and power that a Harvard degree and modicum of ambition entail, if "they" don't appreciate our sacrifice? Could "they" hate us so much if "they" realized what true friends we really...
...usual, the Crimson will rely on its crack group of distance runners for much more than a modicum of points today. In Keith Colburn and Roy Shaw, Harvard has runners who are capable of sweeping both the mile and 1000-yard runs, as both of them have done in previous meets this season. Colburn performed his feat in the 86-18 romp over Boston University and Shaw scored his victories in the 65-44 win over Army...
...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...