Word: modicums
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...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...
There is, then, still a modicum of hope for Wilco, and at the very least it’s clear that Tweedy is still committed to the quality of his fans’ listening experience by offering good faith efforts to make an unfortunate situation more negotiable. Tweedy needs time to convalesce, collect his musical thoughts and regroup, and we should be willing to grant him at least that much before passing judgment. Until that time, though, a $25 ticket investment will likely return few dividends...
Some suggested that the term may not be as offensive as it would have been if used decades earlier. Sen said some Pakistanis are appropriating the word for themselves. Fatima Raja ’03, a Pakistani, said the slur seemed to be gaining a modicum of acceptance...
Search committee member Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, intent on preserving some modicum of Corporation secrecy, fanned the flames. He told Healy that "kids can get it wrong sometimes," leaving the reporter to write in Saturday's Globe that "more than most of the finalists, Summers has made people at Harvard nervous...