Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have. Assuming a fairly constant supply of crater-forming asteroids, Mars, which is far closer to the asteroid belt, would have been hit up to 25 times more often than the moon. There would be as many as 220 craters per 1,000,000 sq. km., not the meager 37 that have been observed...
...Cola bottler. But beer remains by far the company's biggest product-26 million gallons this year. It comes in 16 varieties, from a 1.5% light beer for expectant mothers to a heady 6% brew so nourishing that Bavarian monks in the past drank it to supplement their meager diets during Lenten fasts. The company emphasizes beer's importance by giving each adult worker 68 free bottles weekly. Like his employees, duel-scarred General Director Bernhard Bergdolt, 56, every morning has a 9:30 a.m. "second breakfast" of bread, sausage and the lion's brew...
...Meager Results. At an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council, Secretary-General U Thant was authorized to seek an end to the war. With the fervent support of every Council member, Thant flew from New York to see if world opinion meant anything to the combatants. Results were meager. In Rawalpindi, Thant spent most of his time pleading with Pakistan's rabidly anti-Indian Foreign Minister Z. A. Bhutto. Bhutto made Pakistan's position clear: no cease-fire unless it was accompanied by a definite commitment to settle the Kashmir question by self-determination for the Kashmiri people...
...overwhelmed by the endless offering of exhibits that they become exhausted trying to pick and choose. Those who determinedly set out to see all the sights are apt to call it quits ten exhibits and a few blisters later, discouraged by large lines at some attractions and meager offerings at others. Even if they persist, the price is high. If a family of four were to follow Moses' commandment and push through the turnstiles seven days in a row at $2.50 a head, it would be a $70 bite in the family budget, without allowing for a simple bite...
...Monica Vitti, brooding about fate in The Soup, mocks her own sullen beauty with surprising verve as an impoverished young wife yearning to rid herself of a wretched husband who slurps and belches at mealtime. She is "lucky enough to be hit by a car," and invests her meager insurance money in a series of hired killers, some dishonest, some amorous, none very efficient...