Word: eked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly three times the size of Texas, Libya is 95% arid rock and sand; 99% of its people are illiterate, tending sheep, camels and goats to eke out a per capita income of less than $100 a year. More than $85 million in U.S. aid has poured into Libya in the past eight years to help the young nation to its feet. There is a special reason for U.S. generosity: Libya's government, headed by its near-absolute monarch, King Idris I, permits the U.S. Air Force to operate Wheelus field outside Tripoli, the largest U.S. airbase outside...
...Chicago White Sox, pitched a record total of 464 innings in one season, but was so overworked that he faded fast in his early 303. He never made more than $6,500 a year, and although elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1946, had to eke out a living on a pittance of a pension...
...York City's 82 voluntary, nonprofit hospitals are woefully underpaid.* Local 1199 charged that the bulk of them make less than $40 (some as little as $32) for a work week of 40 hours or more, with no overtime or fringe benefits. Many also get relief payments to eke out a living. In hospitals operated by the city itself, corresponding workers have collective bargaining, get up to 75% more. By strike threats, the union had already won recognition at two voluntary hospitals, reported smooth relations there...
Again using predominantly second-string performers, the varsity fencing team almost took things too much for granted yesterday afternoon against a surprisingly tough Connecticut squad. The Crimson fought off a late UConn rally to eke out a precarious 15-12 victory at the I.A.B...
Above all eke, behind his hail-fellow heartiness. Pat Brown is a worrier. He worries about his weight. He worries about his clothes, is a meticulous dresser despite a tendency toward garterless socks that droop. He worries about having people disagree with him, follows almost every declarative sentence with a question: "Don't you think so?" He worries about his hold on the voters. "Frankly," he confides, "I think I'm closer to the people of California than anyone since Hiram Johnson." Then he asks: "Don't you think so?" He worries about being liked, he worries...