Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White Horse. Within 24 hours, Vishinsky broke the splendid spell. At the steering committee's first meeting, he bitingly scorned a proposal to establish a modest 300-man guard for U.N. "I can see Mr. Lie on a white horse leading his forces against the forces of a sovereign nation, carrying a blue flag on which are the words 'United Nations.' Let us be reasonable, gentlemen . . ." The crowded committee room resounded with politely appreciative laughter...
Last week, in the late Indiana summer, 65-year-old Fletcher Chapel stood as firm as its surrounding maples and oaks-still a modest roadside church, but a strengthened landmark in the rural heartland of U.S. religion...
...daughter of Roy Bargy, orchestra leader and onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman, Jeanne got into show business at the age of 13 on Toledo's station WSPD ("It was pretty much the same show I do now"). After graduating from New York University, she scored a modest success touring the Midwest, playing and singing in cocktail lounges. Then she married Salesman Sid Landau ("I can't understand why people always laugh when I tell them Sid sells zippers") and moved to Brooklyn...
...Harvard and Yale.) That dignified institution turned down the "tainted" money, feeling that it could not build a university with money gouged from California formers by a railroad monopoly. "Very well, I'll found a university of my own," said the good Senator, and so he did. Far too modest to name his institution after himself, he named it after his son, Laland Stanford...
...most interesting variations depending on which way the driver takes the bumps." As she entered the studio, Designer Taylor was on hand to introduce Lisa to the black cocktail dress she was to model. While the designer pulled and pinned the dress into place, she patted Lisa Fonssagrives' modest bosom and said: "Darling, you'll simply have to fill that out. You know what I want-the Maxime look...