Word: meager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forced to make do on a meager three pounds of potatoes a week during the long nights of rationing, patient Britons could find small comfort in the advice of the great epistler, but last week a clutch of lesser literary lights were doing their best to make up for Britain's lack of spuds with a bumper crop of digestible macaronics. Sample from the Evening Standard...
Feet First. Rebecca had not been in London long before she sat at the feet (a vantage point of signal value) of practically everybody worth observing. Her great friend, Novelist G. B. Stern, with whom Rebecca shared meager quarters in those pioneer days, would be struck speechless by the arrival of successive literary lions with whom Miss West would chat, easily and informally, about the private lives and feuds of the legendary characters then dominating the British literary scene...
...Pieter could see no moonbeams glinting from the plumbing in his hotel bathroom. Salisbury was in the midst of an acute water shortage. Pieter called his manager. The manager called the mayor, who just then was sitting, racking his brains over the water crisis, in a tub containing two meager inches of water. When Pieter's manager offered to help, the mayor leaped at the chance, bundled the boy into a car and drove round the town. Finally Pieter spotted some moonbeams. A skeptical but desperate city council set their engineers to work...
...represent a large percentage of the total number of apartments available to veterans living on their government allotments. The great majority of married veterans cannot compete for apartments on any but the lowest rent scale and Federal housing was designed to place decent living quarters within reach of their meager income. It seems grossly unfair that the University sees fit to allow a $10,000 per year faculty member a higher priority than the man for whom the project was intended...
...with only a week and a half of pre-season practice and only one day of practice per week, players are unable to maintain the stamina and hardness necessary to avoid injury. To add further to a general picture of murderous laxity, House teams do not always observe the meager one day of practice each week, individuals neglect to tape their ankles before games, and many players never report a minor injury until it develops into a stretcher case...