Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fond hope that the reticent and captive Hirohito would soon abdicate (he is only 59) in Akihito's favor. To quiet such rumors, the seyen chamberlains announced that construction will begin as soon as possible on a new $20 million palace for Emperor Hirohito since his present modest villa-which was formerly the imperial air-raid shelter-is beneath the dignity of a reigning monarch...
...could wish that plumbers would install them nowadays. Zinc tubs are deeper than the conventional porcelain ones, thus being more modest and more efficient. The water level reaches the shoulders rather than just the knees of the seated bather. The metal sides conserve warmth - of great strategic importance in the older houses of Cantabrigia...
Maybe we should re-evaluate "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public," presented by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift's proposal argued with ironical solemnity the economic wisdom of the sale of year-old infants by the poor to the rich for table consumption...
...leisure with the democrats of the hemisphere: Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME cover, June 23, 1958), President José ("Pepe") Figueres of Costa Rica, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (under Franklin Roosevelt) Adolf A. Berle Jr. He lingered over garlicky meals in modest Manhattan restaurants, analyzed what had gone wrong. After nine years of wandering and pondering, he decided that A.D. had made "psychological errors. There was a certain arrogance, a certain intolerance with minorities. Some say we tried to do too much too fast...
...cliché of a thousand Sunday supplement stories about the "white slave" trade, but it actually happened innumerable times in the vociferously moralistic setting of Victorian England. The nature, extent and eventual destruction of the white slave trade in England are described in detail in this modest monograph by a British novelist, Charles (The Neon Rainbow) Terrot. Between mild beige covers, in mild beige prose, he has told a story that makes the ghastliest passages of Dickens read like a parish calendar...