Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of $1.3 billion over five years, De Gaulle's program would provide 50 medium-range bombers, a handful of atomic missiles and an atom-powered sub. The plan's reception was hostile. Members of the finance and defense committees pointed out that such a meager atomic force would cost a lot of money but still not give France parity with the U.S. or the Soviets in the "atomic club." Other critics pointed out that West Germany, by merely cooperating with NATO to create a European atomic striking force, could probably get at no cost Polaris missiles equipped...
Bazil Thorne drew out ?25.000 in ?10 notes, publicly assured the kidnapers: "God will forgive you if you let my boy go unharmed." But the Thornes' harrowing telephone vigil was interrupted only by calls from ghoulish hoaxers. Last week, as Sydney police stubbornly continued to check out meager clues, a clutch of chidren playing around a ledge rock several miles from the Thorne home discovered a bundle of "rubbish." Inside the bundle was the body of Graeme Thorne. who had been killed within 48 hours of his abduction...
...pious Quaker. When Frank Nixon's lemon grove failed, he moved his family to Quaker-led Whittier, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and opened a small grocery. Dick spent his after school hours and his summers helping out in the store and with the chores in his meager home. "Richard always pulled the shades down when he washed the dishes," his mother recalls, "so that people wouldn't see him with his hands in the dishpan." Up from the dishpans, Dick worked doggedly through Whittier College and then went on to Duke University Law School...
...itself is heavily in debt, running in the red. and putting forth meager dividends. Thus, it stands to gain from a merger...
Crowds overwhelmed Brasilia's meager facilities. "Nobody below the rank of ambassador, Cabinet minister or full general can be housed in the Brasilia Palace Hotel," ruled the chief of the inaugural committee, as 5,000 invited dignitaries fought for its 180 first-class rooms. Conrad Hilton, arriving to lay the cornerstone of his Brasilia Hilton, was offered a cot in the Palace Hotel barbershop. Said Deputy Neira Moreira: "I regret to report that Deputies are even drawing arms to assert their rights to dwellings...