Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCurdy was too modest. Harvard swept nine runners across the finish line before the first Bruin in an impressive exhibition of front-running strength and backup depth...
...love my country and my people, and I am a modest inheritor of the traditions of Russian literature, of such writers as Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. These traditions have taught me that silence is sometimes a disgrace...
Hentoff, a jazz authority and wide-ranging social critic, is one of the most visible freelance writers in circulation. In this slight assignment he overcomes his modest talents for fiction with competence, concern and sympathy. But to what worthwhile end? Surely today's "young adults" do not need such pallid dramatizations of their problems when Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles do it so much better...
...reasons that are sometimes hard to understand, every year some Northern tourists decide to come to the South. They don't come like the droves that swamp America's glamour spots, perhaps, but they do come. Every year, in its own modest way, the trickle of Northerners makes its way down. These Yankees are coming for a special purpose. Instead of looking for the simple amusement they could find in one of the North's Fun Cities, these pioneers are following a dream. They are following one of the two Great Southern Myths that the rest of the nation...
...Even modest improvement in severe cases may be lifesaving, Cotzias points out. One patient who for years had been unable to walk or talk, and hardly able to swallow, recovered sufficiently to walk with assistance, to feed himself, and occasionally to speak. This improvement lasted during the year that he spent at Brookhaven. He died in another hospital, from pneumonia caused by getting food in his lungs, after he had been without L-dopa for some time...