Word: meagerly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This fall Hokkaido's farmers suffered their worst crop failure in 42 years. Hokkaido's fishermen were doing just as badly: harried by Russian gunboats from the Kurile and Sakhalin islands, they were desperately forced to overfish their own meager waters...
...strange creatures of his imagination-looming one-eyed Cyclopes, curiously grinning spiders, claustrophobic images of terror half-seen in the corner of a mirror, and sad, lost fools-testify to his view that in art "everything is done through docile submission to the 'unconscious.' " Redon found a meager market for his nightmares, eked out a living illustrating books, including Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," and peddling his prints to dealers...
...stations, hotel lobbies, rooming houses, side streets, Pullman compartments, lighted windows, underpasses-such are the meager materials Hopper chooses to make immutable and unforgettable on canvas. Their fascination for him lies in the fact they are manmade, and common-man-made. He finds them appropriate for the expression of human striving in all its loneliness and disarray, as well as its hints and spasms of nobility...
Flaw. The Government's case, as set forth in the complaint, was meager. It merely said that competition between the two companies would be eliminated in coke-oven byproducts, pig iron and semifinished steel products, but presented few specific details to show how, made no mention of the fact that even after the merger, Beth Steel would still be far smaller than U.S. Steel. Said a Justice man: "In this case you're losing the independent competing activity of the sixth biggest company in the industry. What more do you need than that...
...broader foreign economic aid. Of the nations of the Middle East, he said: "There must be generous aid in solving their very real economic problems so that their peoples may rise from the depths of poverty and disease. In the past these nations of the Middle East used their meager resources to build up military strength. Now we have the unique opportunity to show them what can be done by using their resources to build up the health and welfare of their peoples...