Word: meager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night Allied military trucks chugged up the mountainside, began the evacuation of some 17,000 people. From San Sebastiano, Massi di Somma and Cercola, the homeless and their meager belongings were carted downslope to emergency shelter and food. In the lava-lit darkness, while grimy soldiers struggled to unsnarl traffic, an air raid alarm sounded. Men doused lights, but Vesuvius paid no heed...
...investment in magnesium-bearing ore lands to a DPC contract to build and operate a $70,000,000 magnesium plant. Basic Magnesium, the company's operating subsidiary, stood to net a fat $840,000 yearly on the deal, although "it had no financial resources and only the most meager experience and talent." Typical result: although the magnesium-bearing ore was over 200 miles distant, the plant was so poorly located that ore had to be shipped by rail some 950 miles to reach it. Cost of the plant rocketed from...
Instead of gobbling their meager food, the Leningrad children hoard it. They slowly drink the liquid part of their soup first, then slowly eat the bits in the bottom of the dish. Often they crumble their bread into matchboxes to be munched furtively later...
...have no evidence as to what really may have brought these two most rational persons, under no illusion about each other or their mutual position and commitments, to think of such an irrational marriage." The elder Santayana, one of twelve children, with the Spanish "dignity in humility," poor, meager, deaf, a painter, a law student, a quoter of Quintilian, solid and grey as the rocky heath of Avila where he used to walk with his young son George, consented when his wife returned to Boston with George and his half brother and half sisters. "How much in this was clearness...
...Methodist inheritance was the one that got J. Arthur Rank into the movies. Some 15 years ago he became concerned about the low and meager state of religious cinema, and organized the Religious Film Society, Ltd. He began making movies for Methodists. (He still teaches Sunday school in Reigate...