Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...units is insufficient for all of them to support themselves. Those without adequate income from teaching and lower level students are expected to obtain support from their families. This places a severe burden on parents, many of whom are near retirement age, and on spouses, whose incomes are often meager. Students unable to obtain the necessary funds may have to discontinue their education. Others, often already in debt because of their undergraduate education, must take out loans which they may have difficulty repaying. Enrollment in the graduate school will increasingly be limited to the wealthy...
...Senate opposition to Gray is rooted in his lack of law-enforcement experience. Gray, who became a lawyer while on active duty with the Navy in 1949, retired after 20 years of military service in 1960. He was nominated for a federal judgeship, but because of his meager qualifications, th nomination was withdrawn before the American Bar Association could officially act upon it. He and Nixon had met at a Washington cocktail party in 1947, and the two have been on friendly terms ever since...
...felt was not giving Harvard an optimum performance. I hold no personal animosity toward him as an individual and I did not seek to main him psychologically. But after the frustration of watching performance after unsuccessful performance, I felt that a change could not detract from an already meager athletic production. And I wrote what I felt, hoping as did so many other fans, that the end result would be a better team performance for Harvard...
Died. Jack MacGowran, 54, Irish actor who, while moving from meager bit parts in Dublin's Abbey Theater to meaty roles in television, stage and film (as the fool in King Lear, the mad soldier in How I Won the War), earned his best notices interpreting the work of his playwright friends Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett; of heart disease; in Manhattan, where he was playing in O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (TIME...
...justice. Surely, though, he can never have been served as badly between covers as he is here on screen. This barbarous adaptation of his novel about a prison for Russian intellectuals prunes all the passion, humanity and immediacy from a story that, lacking them, becomes only a meager, melodramatic tale...