Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the woods toward the advertised cabin, there is still another engraved plaque. There, through a hedge and over another bank, an orchard of dwarf apple trees conceals (except from the annual busloads of DAR chapters and Leagues of Women Voters) the much announced Frost Cabin-unpainted, compact, reassuringly meager. Inside, the cabin is absolutely sparse but quite complete; a sitting room with fireplace and bookshelves, a tiny kitchen with saucepans and brillo pads, and a bedroom with a long workbench...
Americans pay more for medical care than any other people-$60.3 billion in 1969, nearly 500% more than they spent in 1950. Yet the dividends from this investment are depressingly meager. The U.S. trails twelve other countries in infant mortality rates; women live longer in ten countries and men in 17. One of every 50 Americans has no access to a doctor under any circumstances...
...Corporation's announcement last week that it wanted a man with a primary academic commitment, politicians should by all rights be excluded. Ramsey Clark is a politician: A Justice Department lawyer under Bobby Kennedy and Attorney General under Johnson. His academic credentials are pretty meager compared to those of the other four: two years at the University of Texas, where he graduated with an A.B.; another year and a half at the University of Chicago where he simultaneously took his law degree and a masters in history. He's been to Harvard less than ten times...
...those years, anything went. To eke out their meager stipends, parish priests could (and did) sell a 14th century predella out of the back door of their church for a few lire. The art market was full of floating masterpieces at whose origins dealers winked. The outstanding picture in the bequest, Sassetta's Our Lady of the Snow, is arguably the greatest surviving work by this unprolific Sienese master and worth, according to a spokesman at Christie's, "about $1,500,000." But it was stolen 60 years ago from the high altar of the church at Chiusi...
...arrogance and conceit of some youths who, with their meager knowledge and limited experience, are convinced that their beliefs are the correct ones, that their wishes and desires are paramount, are indicative of the puerile mind. This immaturity is further exemplified by their tantrums when opposed. The shouted obscenities, breaking of windows and burning of buildings are the acts of spoiled, irresponsible juveniles who have contributed nothing to society. Most have been fed, clothed and denied practically nothing during this affluent period. Many have yet to escape from the womb of the university where they are often indoctrinated...