Word: modicums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time being, though, in the realm of parents’ weekends as in so many other ways, the College has turned its back on the sophomore class. The most for which we can ask is a modicum of sympathy from the other classes. Well then, juniors, before you leave your parents for the library or the liquor store this weekend, consider first asking them to adopt an orphaned sophomore for the evening. The kindness might be appreciated more than you would care to remember...
...printed word will remain one of the indelible markers for our life and times. It is essential to maintaining a modicum of integrity that we acknowledge, honor and respect the contributions of individuals. The failure to do so by an author as esteemed and talented as Ambrose is disappointing to say the least. JACLYN NELSON Los Angeles...
...obliged to wear a suit and tie to adress Harvard students, many of whom could not even put on a long pair of trousers to hear him. Wearing something other than jeans and a t-shirt does not imply that you are old and stuffy; it simply demonstrates a modicum of respect. If the former vice president has the time to throw on a jacket, the students who go to hear him should have time to make themselves presentable...
...when the fighting was over, the country would return to that bucolic ideal. It never happened. The war never really ended, as the pictures in this book painfully remind us. If you look closely around the edges of Neveu's pictures taken in the 1990s you see a modicum of prosperity and happiness creeping in. But Neveu is set on the tragedy and turmoil. Even his smiling children are standing by stacks of forlorn wrecked cars or waving guns. Perhaps in Cambodia it could be no other...
...seems to suggest; quite the contrary is true. At the same time, we feel that our lively support of football, hockey and basketball (whether they’re winning or losing, whether it is early or late in the season, whether it is warm or cold outside) merits a modicum of recognition...