Word: meager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party had polled a meager 1,116,390 votes-far short of the 20 million he had predicted last April, still far short of the 4,000,000 he had originally set as his goal. He had run badly in industrial states like Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan; his 184,714 votes in California amounted to less than half of what had been expected...
...writes Dr. Freeman, "One verb told the story . . . grab, grab, grab." Washington's father and grandfather had been successful grabbers in a relatively small way. Father Augustine (he was called Gus) could afford to send two of his sons to school in England, though George got his meager schooling at home. When he died in 1743, Gus Washington left over 10,000 acres and 49 slaves. To eleven-year-old George went Ferry Farm, the family home, 2,180 acres, and ten slaves. To wealthy Virginians like the Fairfaxes and the Carters that estate was small potatoes, but George...
...dollars in the Bushwick Savings Bank . . . I've never horsed around with women. You're the first girl I was ever serious about. Maybe you could do better-a girl like you. But you could do a lot worse than taking me . . .' Thus he laid his meager shining life before...
...Russians continued intransigent, the U.S. had another possible course. It could use its meager armored forces (see cut) to blast a land route to Berlin. But that would mean that the U.S. would abandon its present morally unassailable position. As matters stood, the air lift over the blockade could go on until the Russians stopped it-but only...
...last week John L. got a big break from Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who has twice slapped big fines on him. Judge Goldsborough dismissed the pension fund suits, adding that a $100-a-month pension for miners above 62 was "meager ... just enough to keep the miners from being objects of charity...