Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican Republic. One way or the other, in the hot, flat northeast corner of Haiti one morning last week, a band of Haitian exiles led by former army officers waded back into their homeland. Still dripping wet, silver-haired General Léon Cantave, 53, quickly organized his meager forces. Then they all marched off to overthrow, or at least harass, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's brutal dictator...
...small-scale farmers with little capital, price supports provide only meager help. The less a farmer produces, the less he gets from price supports. "Most of the help," says Higbee, "goes to a relatively small percentage of upper-bracket operators who are better off than the majority of taxpayers...
...phenomenon as "a new, near-missionary zeal - very contagious. The students are extremely conscious of shortened distances, and the whole world is on their minds. They have a great sense of being a drop in the bucket, but they have a tremendous desire to use their talents, however meager. This is recklessness in the best sense...
...plan. And what does the farmer get out of it? A high support price of $2 a bushel on most of his wheat, plus "diversion payments'' on the acreage he takes out of wheat production. If the plan fails to get a two-thirds majority, a relatively meager support price of about $1.25 a bushel will be available for growers who voluntarily restrict themselves to assigned acreage quotas. Other farmers will be free to grow as much wheat as they choose without any price-support help at all. Secretary Freeman has repeatedly said that the market price...
...same fault. Very few writers discussed matters relevant to their experience at Harvard; instead they sought "genuine" Jewish material and produced stories about shtetl culture or essays about "chasidism for today's youth." They looked back to the Central European world of their grandparents and proved, by the meager quality of their work, that Kasrilevkeh cannot inspire someone who was never there...