Word: meagerness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...battlefield: New York City. "It is a laboratory," Baron explains. "Every noise source in the U.S. can be found here in larger amounts." His success: meager. "The big problem is communication," he says. "When air pollution was shown actually to kill people, there was action. Fortunately or unfortunately, we cannot show a direct cause-and-effect relationship between excessive noise and death...
...Billikens' strategy is defense. St. Louis has allowed only 85 shots on goalie Don Copple. Harvard opposition has fired 175 times at Bill Meyers. Copple had to make only 39 saves, letting a meager 6 goals slip through, while Meyers's statisties show 143 saves and only 7 misses...
Raquel's screenland novitiate was typically rugged. She lived in a $70-a-month apartment with her children. She had no job, no car, and her only income was a meager allowance from Welch, who by that time was serving with the Green Berets in Southeast Asia. Raquel, ever resourceful, tied up with Agent Noel Marshall, who coached her in the fundamentals of studio saleswomanship. Every day she rose at 6 a.m., dropped her children at a day-care center and set off on her unappointed rounds of photographers. It was a dreary life, but she kept plugging, waiting...
...Yardling's 55-goal season output breaks the freshman scoring record of 50 goals set by last year's 10-0 team. At the same time, the Crimson defense allowed a meager five goals, second only to the four-goal season record held by Bill Meyers 1967 team...
...human race and delight in all things German-as epitomized by beer and Brahms. Politicians were rogues. The church was only a racket. People in general were boobs. Such were the underpinnings of Mencken's rococo invective. But when serious matters were involved, his philosophical resources were meager and his thinking often callow and jejune...