Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yorty's $570,000), he is slipping badly. Three weeks ago Brad ley held a 43.4% to 28.5% lead over Yorty, with an unusually high 20.1% still undecided and another 8% refusing to announce a choice. As of last week Bradley's edge had shrunk to a meager 42% to 39%, with 19% still undecided...
...corvees which are then resumed, and a subsequent revolt. She joins other fugitives slaves almost by accident; Solitude becomes a figure of legend only in their final battle, fighting against French armies who hope to re-establish slave trade. Violent revolt is the final, inevitable, heroic support of the meager life she is left with...
What Frazier got, for starters, was a bad case of humiliation. As Frazier goes, so go the Knicks, and, hounded by the relentless West, Frazier went nowhere. The Knicks' leading scorer was only able to make one meager field goal in the entire first half. DeBusschere and Bradley, who led the Knicks with 25 and 24 points respectively, helped close the scoring gap in the second half, but Reed proved no match for the indomitable Chamberlain, who plucked rebounds like so many oranges off a tree...
...problems had vanished." Lombardi never got around to selling stocks. Instead, he played piano in a Saigon hotel for 18 months at $900 a month: when the American presence was at its highest levels, a polished entertainer like Lombardi was very much in demand. Today he ekes out a meager living by teaching at the University of Saigon (salary: $42 per week) and writing an occasional magazine story. Fluent in eleven languages, a former Oxford lecturer who also taught at Seton Hall and Colorado State, Lombardi is content in Saigon. "There's a feeling of complete freedom here...
This concerns the trade agreement on which Nixon and Brezhnev shook hands in Moscow last May. That agreement promised a vast expansion of the two nations' meager level of trade ($200 million in 1971) through tariff reductions and long-term credits. What the Russians regard as the key element of the deal-treatment of Russian imports on a "most-favored-nation" basis* -requires congressional approval...