Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again, and it became a polite joke to ask who had written for the new issue. No one would have minded this policy of nepotism had the quality of the craftsmanship been higher, but with two notable exceptions (Stephen Sandy and Arthur Freeman) the last three years have been meager ones. And so there may be cause for hope, since this long awaited April number includes a host of new writers and a surprising amount of fine work...
...whatever name, more than a million impoverished white Southerners, comprising 20% of the population of the 250 Appalachian Mountain counties in nine Southern states, *moved northward between 1950 and 1960 to eke out a precarious living in the big cities. Packed into secondhand cars loaded down with their meager possessions, swarms still arrive every day in such cities as Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and Springfield. With them arrive the hopes, problems and frustrations of a new U.S. minority. They are the Okies...
...last going to do more than talk about grabbing the disputed territory that he calls West Irian. He also adroitly deployed psychological warfare: Indonesia broadcast reports of widely spaced new landings on New Guinea's coast and Waigeo Island, forcing the Dutch to spread out their meager defenses (5,800 combat troops). And by compelling The Hague to ship new troops to the Pacific on the eve of a big debate on New Guinea in the Dutch Parliament, Sukarno played shrewdly on the knowledge that a bloody defensive war would be unpopular in The Netherlands...
...even three-tenths of the Harvard-Radcliffe community apparently has ever heard of the nationally famous Duke of Earl. Of 348 College students questioned yesterday and Wednesday, a meager 102 thought the name even faintly familiar...
...long, oh how long, America?" keynoter and afterward faded into a Nashville law practice, announced that he will run again for Governor. Said Clement, now 41: "I am ten years older than when I first ran for Governor and I hope ten years more mature." With meager opposition and no run-off Democratic primary (as in most other Southern states), Clement probably will...