Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown's hopes for victory, however meager, became dimmer as the powerful Crimson heavyweights prepared to wrestle. Chatterton, still undefeated, disposed of Dave Gottert, 14-4, nearly pinning him. This convincing win demonstrated Chatterton's improvement--last year Chattertson battled to a 3-2 decision over Gottert...
These expenditures are rather exorbitant for a committee with so meager a legislative record. HUAC, or HISC, has yet to produce one workable anti-subversion measure. It has secured 129 contempt citations but won only 9 convictions. At best, the Committee has succeeded only at compiling an unknown number of political dossiers on American citizens...
...cause" to do so. The warrant, said the court, should have contained both more detail on what led the informant to conclude that the phones were for bet taking, and some support for the FBI claim that the informant's word could be trusted. The informant's "meager report," said Justice John Harlan for the majority, "could easily have been obtained from an offhand remark heard at a neighborhood bar." Nor, said the court, does the FBI agent's report make up for the shortcomings in the informant's story...
...meager 1968 trade surplus, only $726 million last year compared with $7.8 billion as recently as 1964, is an other painful result of inflation. Although the total volume of U.S. exports actually rose, climbing domestic price levels attracted a torrent of imports. If some $2.5 billion of U.S. exports paid for by Government aid are excluded, the nation actually suffered a trade deficit last year...
...some danger of being subverted by pernicious influences. This is a message I bring back from the Miami festival: The music of groups like the Grateful Dead, Iron Butterfly, Spirit, the whole West Coast style that is spreading rapidly to the East, replete with long solos (often tasteless and meager in content) within a virtually unstructured form, is music of sorts, and under certain conditions it sounds magnificent, but it isn't rock 'n' roll, and so it is forever denied a mass audience...