Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pineapple pie-flavored serving ladies smile at jokes and quasi affectionate banter, but still give meager helpings of food. Even lavish compliments on the quality of the chow never clicit more than the two regulation eggs or one slice of London broil. These are the ladies whom the management has successfully intimidated. The presence of a man in a double-breasted suit behind the serving line often creates a whole row of pineapple pie-flavored ladies. The inveterate ones are usually either under 25 or over 80. They crave affection, but fear the whip...
...district continues to send him back to Washington. For in Whitten's district, only a few of the 59.1 per cent of the citizens who are Negroes can vote. And these are people whose poverty the government programs are designed to aid: their median income is $700 below the meager district-wide average...
Though slavery certainly exists, the moviemakers who exploit misery for profit repeatedly flesh out their meager evidence of it by ogling puberty rites and bare-breasted concubines. Footage of a strip show in Beirut brings on a French tootsie who casts a hard eye at the camera and says she will gladly trade off her pasties to any sheik, sultan or oil-rich daddy who can meet the cover charge. This may be slavery, but most of the civilized world has another name...
...when Detroit's pressmen walked off the city's two papers, the Free Press and the News, one of the more interested observers was a 23-year-old graduate student in economics at Detroit's Wayne State University. Michael Gordon Dworkin's journalistic experience was meager; in years past he had logged a little time on Wayne State's student paper, the Daily Collegian. But he did not lack for nerve. If the shutdown lasted long enough, he decided, an interim daily might make its publisher some real money. On the strength of his decision...
Three years after the creation of the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs, its executive committee has recommended its abolition--and with good reason. The Council's accomplishments during its three years can generously be called meager. Its successes have rarely risen above the level of its first triumph, when the central kitchen promised to serve a greater variety of ice cream...