Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contest could never really have been called fair. On one side was an ailing but wily autocrat, whose authority was waning but whose hands remained firmly clenched around the levers of political power. On the other was an unassuming but determined housewife-crusader, whose political resources were meager but whose brief and meteoric candidacy had fanned the desire of millions of her countrymen for political change. What had kept the mismatched sides in balance during the course of their 57-day election battle was a promise as potent in appeal as it was frail in prospect. The hope was that...
...last night's cager contest against Dartmouth had seemed familiar: the meager crowd, the deficit at halftime, the low shooting percentages...
...grew up in Salem, Ohio, not having much save a spit-in-your-eye disposition. She attended a high school that strove to provide a calling, as well as an education. From a rack of meager choices, she selected a clothing major, and when she was a junior she won the local, state and national make- it-yourself-with-wool contest with a suit symmetrically superior to the competition...
...Engineers, who shot under 37 percent from the floor on the night, put together a meager string of six consecutive points midway through the half, but never succeeded in drawing closer than the 23-point halftime deficit...
...meager ten percent of law students at Harvard who do not go into corporate law, some will go into teaching. Of that latter group, Kennedy argues, students who are receptive to the CLS viewpoint comprise a sizeable percentage. By focusing on those students, and sending them out into the world of law school faculties with both CLS leanings and a Harvard or Stanford degree-ticket to a teaching position, CLS has been able to build itself as a national movement...