Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very few times in the history of any country," he told the nation, "when all persons must take a stand on critical issues. This is one of those times; this is one of those issues." By week's end, however, the federal show of determination had yielded embarrassingly meager results. A force of 10,000 policemen staged 2,000 raids and made 374 arrests, but they turned up no sign of Cross and had few leads in the Laporte murder. Of some 9,000 sticks of stolen dynamite estimated to be in F.L.Q. hands, only 900 were recovered. What made...
FRAP filed a $3.6 million libel suit against Drapeau late last week. Sunday's voting took place under heavy military guard. An estimated 45 per cent of Montreal's eligible voters showed up to cast ballots-an unusually meager turnout. Drapeau was swept into office with more than 90 per cent of the vote, and his party won all 52 city council seats. He will now begin his fourth term as Montreal's mayor...
Despite a meager turnout of twelve at a meeting in Winthrop House JCR last night, the SDS Antiwar Committee decided to hold a demonstration this Thursday in front of the Developmental Advisory Service's offices at 1737 Cambridge Street...
Which is not to say that the rest of the Orioles were standing idly by. Baltimore's Big Three-Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar and Dave McNally-helped hold Cincinnati's vaunted sluggers to a meager .213 average and only five home runs. And Frank Robinson, Boog Powell and Paul Blair backed a .292 Baltimore hitting attack that accounted for 50 hits and 33 runs. The Orioles' slug ging average of .509 was in fact a record for a five-game Series, as were their ten home runs. Even McNally got into the act as he became...
...effectiveness of all this expanded activity will greatly depend on whether Congress agrees next year to enlarge the FTC's budget beyond the meager $20.5 million authorized for fiscal 1970. If the commission continues its performance of recent months, an increasingly consumer-minded Congress might be persuaded to up the ante...