Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would do when his unemployment benefits--or, as the people at the unemployment office suddenly began referring to them, his un-unemployment benefits--ran out. He still didn't know if he would find work again. His wife continued to clip every coupon she could find, and his meager savings continued to dwindle...
Safire claims to write "neither in defense nor denunciation," but what he has produced is the cleverest, if still unconvincing, defense of Nixon yet. He devotes too much space to a glorification of Nixon's meager domestic program, which he sees as a near revolutionary "New Federalism" in government. In foreign affairs, he uncritically accepts Nixon's Viet Nam policies while-more reasonably-extolling the Nixon initiatives in Peking and Moscow...
...Crimson's defeat before a meager crowd in St. Louis Arena gave Harvard (23-6) a fourth place finish in the nation, the same ranking as last year. The Terriers, 26-5-1 overall, took the third slot, also for the second consecutive season...
...administrators seldom packed out beyond the Yard's wells--unless there was some land to buy. Although University disciples would like you to believe that Harvard altrusticly scratched itself from the race to beat MIT to Central Square, actually Harvard did its best but was saddled with too meager a mechanism to buy, or just wasn't shrewd enough to deal with private land developers. When the banks of the Charles were covered with old coal storage dumps, only a few alumni had the foresight to buy the parcel and donate it to Harvard...
...However poor, however rejected or unsuccessful he might be, the Parisian artist could afford to feel that he was part of a continuum known as the avantgarde. In America this was not so; the way to a modernist aesthetic lay through nearly impassable thickets of provincialism, with a very meager supply of information as a guide...