Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whoosh. Becaud studied piano and composition, and was making a meager living writing cabaret songs when a friend suggested in 1953 that he ought to sing them as well. "When I told my wife I was going to sing," he recalls, "she said, 'You're not going to do that!' 'Yes, I am,' I said. We laughed for three hours...
...Pike took over as rector of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and rebuilt a moribund parish; on the side, he undertook some "whistlestop mission preaching" that honed his skills at improvising in the pulpit. In 1949, he took over as chaplain at Columbia University and head of its meager religion department. Pike brought in good new teachers, including Paul Tillich as an adjunct professor. To upgrade his own academic credentials, Pike submitted chapters of his book Faith of the Church (written with Norman Pittenger and still used in Episcopal lay teaching), plus some other writing and his law doctorate...
...squanders her family's meager monthly handouts on dining at a cafe or on rides in a hansom cab. After befriending an agreeable demi-prostitute and paving the primrose path for her grandson, she develops a haphazard taste for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes. She eventually sells off her furniture, buys a jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made...
...CORE's position on Black Power is that black people must be able to determine for themselves the direction and pace of their progress," Floyd McKissick, National Director of CORE told a meager, Young Dems audience last night...
Senator Jimmy Carter, 41, a moderate in the Arnall mold, who had so meager a pre-primary following that people habitually referred to him as "Jimmy Who?" As it turned out, the Arnall-Carter brand of rational race relations pulled a total of 365,000 votes, 25,000 more than Maddox and two other ardent white supremacists could raise between them...