Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard offense has yet to get untracked, as it managed to take only four shots on goal in the first half and a meager two in the second. Wesleyan, meanwhile, peppered Bryant with a total of 21. Not surprisingly, the Cardinals kept the ball in the Crimson end for the first five minutes...
When football training camp opened this Fall, four blacks reported to vie for positions on the squad. From this meager beginning the number of blacks in the program has dwindled. Early on, two players who figured fairly prominently in the Crimson's season plans dropped out. Just before the pre-season scrimmage with Brown, a third left the team, leaving Jiggetts as the sole black on the squad...
Most of the men and women who have manned the assembly lines at Chrysler plants for 15 or 20 years are not unhappy about the contract's meager limits on mandatory overtime. Many of them say that the long working hours have become part of daily life. After thirty years of the same day-to-day tedium, they said they hoped mainly to retired with full pensions, regardless...
Meanwhile, the political polarization of Chile continued, with Allende seemingly unable to do much about it. The truckers' protest triggered sporadic strikes by doctors, shopkeepers and bus and taxi drivers angered by ballooning inflation (300% in the first six months of this year) and meager incomes. To prevent chaos, the President tried to make peace with the opposition Christian Democrats. Nothing came of the dialogue because the party was badly split. One faction urged support for the government. Another, led by ex-President Frei, was determined to help topple it by withholding cooperation...
Causes for the Crimson's so-so performance in 1971-1972 have been traced to a wide variety of elements, ranging from injuries to charges of racism. But these reasons notwithstanding, the most persistent argument regarding the Crimson's meager showing is that Restic's technique tries to do too much in too little time...