Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These unionists were men willing to die for their cause; many actually did. They had a plan of action and an ideology based on their own bitter experiences with the ruling class. The IWW fought hard for Hill's re-trial, and at a time when defense funds were meager and members were imprisoned everywhere, Hill received special aid. By failing to take its hero's ideals and struggles seriously enough, the film equally fails in making the audience take Hill himself seriously...
...elderly. Victims of a society that has prolonged life but shortened its usefulness, they sit playing chess, feeding birds or nodding in the sun in geriatric ghettos from San Diego to St. Petersburg. If less well off, they huddle in threadbare apartments in central cities, eking out a meager existence on Social Security, daring the sidewalks only when necessity overrides fear and infirmity...
...contrast, the Democrats are in penury. The party's campaign fund contains a meager $500,000; debts totaling $9.3 million remain unpaid from the 1968 campaign. There is Democratic money to be had, but there are too many candidates competing in an uncertain situation for any of the high rollers to empty their wallets this early. In his brief, six-week run for the nomination, Fred Harris had been able to raise only $160,000 when he quit because he was bankrupt. Birch Bayh, before he dropped out of contention when his wife became ill, reportedly received...
First Priority. The plan is to double the country's meager agricultural income by 1975 and encourage foreign investment in order to provide more industrial jobs. That will become increasingly important as troops are mustered out of South Viet Nam's 1,100,000-man army when-and if-demobilization begins, perhaps as soon...
Mayor Julio Rodrigues used his meager municipal funds to send two DDT sprayers through the town. The spray made some people vomit, but the crickets "just licked it off and kept on coming," said Schoolteacher Mariestela Barros. Some Altinhos thought the plague was a sign that God was displeased with long hair, miniskirts, rock music and the decrease in churchgoing among Altinho's youth. But Dona Nina Lemos, another of the town's schoolteachers, questioned that notion. She wondered: "If God were going to punish clothing styles, wouldn't he send a plague...