Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese resistance is so meager as to be almost unbelievable. There is little antiaircraft fire in the target area and if any enemy night fighters are in the air, none has made aggressive sweeps toward our aircraft. In the time we have been near the target we have seen only a few phosphorus shells from land-based flak batteries and a few tracers from small warships in the harbor but none came close. . . . They could not save this northern Honshu shipping center [Aomorí] even though they knew 24 hours in advance [see above] that we were going to burn...
...just after midday, when thousands of Osaka workers had paused to bolt down meager lunches in the partly ruined Chicago of Japan. High in the heavy overcast the U.S. planes rode in-more than 400 B-29s and 150 escorting P-51 Mustang fighters. For three hours the planes were overhead. High-explosive bombs fell first, driving Japanese air-raid workers to the shelters. Then the fire bombs fell, destroying without interruption...
...Harrod's or Debenham & Freebody's, purses were made of imitation leather with no linings (price: anywhere from $8 to $20). Definitely inferior pocketbooks could be found from $3. Leather or reptile skin purses were priced from $40 to $60, and even the selection was meager in the extreme...
First off the mark was Rhode Island, which depends on racing for 8% of its state revenue. The betters jammed Narragansett Park 25,000 strong, could hardly wait to stuff $1,153415 (almost twice what they wagered on opening day last year) through the betting machines. In Chicago, a meager 13,673 turned up at Sportsman's Park, wagered an average $50 (against $37 on the same day last year). Other tracks joining the pony parade: ¶ Race-hungry Hollywoodish Santa Anita had planned to open up the day after the ban was lifted, found trouble getting help...
Finding their English misunderstood un less spoken with a French accent, instructors soon learned to say "Zis ees zee way" instead of "This is the way." The apt Frenchmen were soon embellishing their meager English with a Southern accent...