Word: modicums
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...things happen to people instead of the other way around, where all the important choices and opportunities are predetermined. Even when people began to talk about how little they felt "on top of things" their feelings would immediately be counter-balanced by the sources of their conservatism--by the modicum of security and the dreams that held together Howell's "settled" families and from which the "hard living" families had found the only immediately realizeable escape...
...disappointingly small. However, in the final analysis, this office can submit to the HEW and to the community at large, only those plans, goals, projections and timetables submitted to it by the various deans, department heads and administrative units within the University. The fact is that anyone with a modicum of understanding of the University structure knows that Harvard operates on a system of "every tub on its own bottom...
...fact, a modicum of suspense was needed to save the Derby from tedium. No one wants to bet against a horse that seems invincible, and invincible is exactly what Secretariat appeared to be before the Wood. As a two-year-old, the offspring of Bold Ruler had dominated his peers, winning seven of nine races. He was subsequently voted Horse of the Year, an honor usually reserved for older thoroughbreds. After being syndicated for the record sum of $6,080,000, he opened the 1973 season with convincing victories in the Bay Shore and Gotham Stakes...
...Radcliffe is a modicum of solitude," R. Michelle Green '74, upperclass advisor in Weld Hall said. Green, who lived in Currier during her freshman year, said "that although I loved Currier dearly, the 15-minute walk was a pain...
Specter. The Socialists scoff at charges that they would become "hostages" to a Soviet-dominated Communist Party. The Communists, in turn, have displayed a modicum of independence from Moscow in recent years, and many nonleftist voters are no longer scared by the thought of Soviet domination. Mitterrand has not repeated an early pledge that his Socialists were committed to an "indestructible" five-year union with the Communists that would prevent any government from ruling France without Communist participation. Instead he stresses that the Socialists would wield a majority over the Communists in the Assembly...