Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York State a millennium hence, with a prologue and epilogue that occur 600 years beyond that. These short sections show a society struggling back to some kind of sufficiency after the human race has committed mass suicide during the Age of Ecology. Though comfort is meager and government insanely harsh, man is glorified as the Lord of Creation. The great annual holiday is called the Feast of Eater, honoring the legendary hero who long ago defied the order to kill himself. His name-no name is too obvious for Mano-was Dominick Priest...
While still in his teens, he moved south and made a meager living working for gritty rhythm-and-blues stations...
...centenary edition, first appeared in 1923 when the author was 50 and doing her best work. H.L. Mencken had called her a great novelist. Edmund Wilson, a young whippersnapper in those days, conceded that she was one of the few who could bring "distinction" to the Middle West: "that meager and sprawling scene." Not even he was aware that at that very moment the post-World War I generation-Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner-were sealing the door on Cather's kind of reverent regionalism...
...doctor, I have faced this decision and, in the darkness of night, with hope for the patient lost, have been at the hospital with sorrow in my heart. Speaking meager words of comfort to an anxious family, I have put my arm around a mother, wife or husband as they sobbed on my shoulder, and then "pulled the plug." It is not easy. It also is not easy to awaken in the morning to find the newspapers rasping away at heartless, moneygrubbing doctors...
...looks bleak. They feel that the government has done little for them. They complain about the corruption of the Lon Nol regime. One soldier, a deep orange flower stuck in the band of his helmet, asks as he takes time out from battle to fix some rice for a meager lunch: "Where are all the medicines? We don't see them out here. They are on the black market in Phnom-Penh." Worrying about the fast-approaching August 15 end to U.S. air support, he admits that "It's going to be difficult to fight without...