Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swarm of flies. But boy, am I happy. [The kitten with the black nose is now pulling at my sandal strap.] I came here absolutely famished after exploring a slab of rock that once supported a Byzantine castle, which was hell to find. I had a frightfully meager breakfast at the youth hostel this morning at eight. It's now three. There were no restaurants anywhere, so I came here, looked around hungrily and said "Restauranta?" A young man who spoke French came to my aid. He explained that this wasn't a restaurant, only a cafe. But he took...
...Play came with 1:54 left in the game, when Yale lineman Bill Crowley intercepted a Kevin Case pass, killing a Dartmouth drive that neared the goal line. The Yale defense was at its overall best, however, in the first half, when it held the Green to a meager 14 yards...
...didn't think Kissinger was "beautiful." In token of the pleasure this information gave them, they lit me a cigarrette--one in an alarming flow, since they insisted on taking my nauseated refusal for shyness. When I used the Serbian version of thank you, they revised my meager vocabulary to fit their own dialect. Two of them were professors; the pudgy man who showed off a snapshot of his daughter in return for a look at my ID taught economics, and Janev's field was philosophy, but they had all been recruited for manual labor in one of Tito...
...bonuses to be reaped from publishing and then using your own text besides the convenience of having a text which you find satisfactory for your students to use. Ironically, the monetary rewards are probably the smallest of these pluses. The average royalties on college textbooks bring the author a meager 14 per cent of net receipts, although each book has a different rate. This income is not based on list price, but rather on discount over-the-counter prices--many on second hand, paperback, and drastically reduced editions. Ezra Vogel, professor of Sociology, who lectures in Sociology 114, "Japanese Society...
...task of the police in 1976 is almost impossible," says Inspector General Shaul Rosolio, 53, a lifelong cop with the build of an ironworker who heads Israel's 17,000-officer national police force. Rosolio toils in that meager patch of the possible, searching for more effective ways of beating back a rising tide of crime. Israel's growing cities now provide the anonymity so useful to criminals. Raging inflation has widened the gap between rich and poor, leaving some Israelis ready to steal their share of the new affluence. Worse, more and more citizens, long schooled...