Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most recent example of this meager performance record was, of course, the irresponsible (and ultimately ineffective) opposition of the Democratic majority in the General Court to the Governor's sales tax plan. In the House, Majority Leader John F.X. Davoren (D-Milford) pledged to oppose the sales tax, but offered no reasonable alternative. In the Senate, President Maurice Donahue (D-Holyoke) continued to oppose the measure until long after all of the substitute measures had been killed. By the end of the battle, almost half of Donahue's supporters, disillusioned with his delaying tactics, deserted him. The image...
...appearances of the fight--meetings with the State Department of Public Works, a trip to Washington, vocal speeches and arguments--have been impressive. But looked at more realistically, Cambridge's struggle has had more elements of charade than serious strategy. The substance of the City's opposition has been meager, at best, and at worst, nonexistent...
Officially Golf became a major sport last year, so now the team members do not quite pay for everything themselves. But Harvard facilities are still meager: a one-man practice net in Dillon Field House. The team practices at The Country Club in Brookline and plays at the Myopia Hunt Club, 45 minutes from Cambridge. As a result, golfers are continually looking for some new illicit place to knock out a few balls...
...State of the Union message that he would again seek the funds. The $12 million allocation, then, is hardly encouraging, since it will not enable the low-income housing project to proceed on any reasonable basis, and since it once again constitutes a rebuff to Johnson. In its meager appropriation and its virtual prohibition of supplements to suburban areas, the House subcommittee could very well bring the program...
...less obvious assets cannot always be predicted, since they have a great deal to do with character of the people living in the House in any particular year. This year a renaissance has swept Dunster, tangibly improving the House's formerly, meager intellectual and cultural credentials...