Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sagging Heads. The Phillies began taxing the endurance power of that love on opening day, when they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Since then Mauch's team, a combination of players too young to be good and too old for ambition, has won only 34 games, a meager victory assortment widely diffused by 88 defeats. In a fruitless effort to break the losing habit, Manager Mauch has shifted his players into unfamiliar positions, paraded pitchers to the mound, used as many as 17 players a game, and even tried applied psychology. "Do what you want to," he ordered...
...Miami the exiles shrugged. "Yesterday I was well off," said one. "Today I have nothing." In Cuba some people burned their money, and others spent it. Housewives packed the meager stores; Havana's tomblike luxury restaurants sprang suddenly to life. One man sat at a bar calmly lighting cigars with 20-peso bills: a shop owner stood on the sidewalk passing out money and crying: "The end of the world has come...
...original pledge to stay at home, to rely on normal diplomatic channels, and to enter on summit diplomacy only after careful preparation. They now fear that Kennedy may be embarking on an inadequately thought out, poorly prepared summit meeting, whose objectives are unclear and whose results will be meager. One top French official put it brutally: Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev, he said, is like "fighting a championship bout after your last two sparring partners have knocked...
...fellow Governors how close the West is coming to having nothing at all. He noted that 200 key Western reservoirs stood at 53% capacity in October of 1957; the estimate for this October is 20%. The Governors concluded that this year's shortage is the product of meager spring rains, low humidity and high winds that literally sucked the moisture out of fields and for ests. But the crisis has been building a long while. For 30 years the Colorado River's water level has been trending downward because of recurring droughts. Southern California is in its third...
...Daily (estimated circ. 1,000,000), went down from eight pages to four. The Red Flag, semimonthly bull horn of the Party Central Committee, now occasionally publishes monthly. In Hong Kong, the customary array of Red Chinese propaganda-some 150 different periodicals in 1959-has dwindled to a meager dozen, and a few bookstore browsers were amazed to learn that one steady seller was no longer available: the collected works of Red China's Chairman Mao Tse-tung...