Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more modest level, the district is annexing land in Chicago suburbs to build small flood basins. These will only begin use about 20 days a year, Bacon says, and can be used for playgrounds the rest of the year. The project raises an eerie image of a little league game, postponed because the diamond is under 15 feet of water...
...ESCALATION. The most modest proposals call for a pause in the bombing of the North and reduction of U.S. "search-and-destroy" operations in the South. Cutting back search-and-destroy efforts would reduce the U.S. to a static defense posture little different from the enclave stance. These swift, surprise sweeps of Viet Cong territory have kept the guerrillas off-balance, deprived them of sanctuaries they have used for years, and prevented any large-scale attacks for three months...
...blazing Athens morning, but the shades were tightly drawn in the modest second-story apartment in the residential section of Kolonaki. With urgent, hurried gestures, Panayotis Kanellopoulos, 64, ushered 15 visitors into his darkened living room. "We have only five minutes," he said. "Let us not stay here too long." Then the last constitutionally appointed Premier of Greece, who was overthrown, imprisoned and later released after the April 21 army coup, broke his long silence with a direct, head-on attack on Greece's military rulers...
...atmosphere of the first year, at Yale as well as at Harvard, may turn some of these students off. In rejecting the quest for riches and even for economic security, this small strang of students I am describing may underestimate how much money it takes to live in the modest way they would like to, even to keep up their record collections. Such a student, when he emerges with an LL.B., may feel that he has a kind of certificate that commits him to nothing in particular, provides him with a modicum of career insurance, and the far more important...
...Dawn. Even so, it will take quite a while to bring relief to the long-neglected Russian consumer. Women who seek the services of the top hairdressing shops in Moscow must queue up at dawn if they expect to get in. Moscow's new glass-steel "skyscrapers" (of modest height) became functionless in last summer's heat as broken air conditioners remained unfixed...