Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lions' passing attack yielded a meager 18 yards for the afternoon. Columbia will tangle with Joe Restic's Crimson next week in New York...
...Cady are brought to trial, a likelihood at this point, conviction is hardly certain. Conspiracy charges are difficult to prove even in obvious cases. Still, Star executives are angry at what they view as harassment. They are also disappointed by the fact that their series has produced such meager results so far. Mayor Richard G. Lugar has brought in a new police chief and formed a citizens' committee to study the department. He has accepted many of the committee's recommendations for reform, such as establishing incompetence as a ground for dismissal. The FBI is looking into...
...April 1943 pact that instituted coeducational classes--allowed Radcliffe to designate the dean as president of Radcliffe if its trustees desired. But the responsibilities of the administrative head of what remained of "Radcliffe" had been so undercut that the retention of the title, "president of Radcliffe," represented a last meager attempt to maintain Radcliffe's identity as a women's institution distinct from the university that now controlled...
Evers does not even accept his meager $75-a-month salary as mayor of impoverished Fayette, but he owns a restaurant, liquor store and motel in town. The indictment "should prove all niggers aren't on welfare," said Evers last week, after proclaiming his innocence. He added that he had repeatedly told the Internal Revenue Service that he would pay whatever they said he owed, "but they told me very frankly, 'No, we want you.' " That was a distortion, said an IRS official: "We just told him that we weren't there to collect money, that...
...countries, ranging in size from China (pop. 800 million) to the South Pacific island state of Nauru (pop. 6,500). They see Caracas as a grand divvying up of the oceans' wealth: a "unique opportunity," as C.R. Pinto of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) puts it, "to augment their meager national resources with none of the unpleasant connotations of 'economic aid.' " They argue that the law Grotius wrote in a maritime era gives an unfair advantage to developed nations in a technological era. Continuation of the status quo, Delegate Makhold Lerotholi of Lesotho protested in Caracas last week...