Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lake Placid (a second to Heiden, nearly as good as a gold), Boucher is the most successful Olympian in his country's history. "Keep going, I told my legs in the 1500," he said. "I started hurting at 300 meters. It was strictly guts." Canadians had invested meager hope in their hockey team, which lost 16 times in 19 exhibition games leading up to the Olympics, including...
...House as a Vice President and concluded that he was big enough to fill the Oval Office. Like Nixon, he spent years courting his party's regional powerbrokers and filled his pockets with political lOUs. Also reminiscent of Nixon, Mondale found a prosperous law firm to replenish his meager personal finances while he ran virtually full time for the presidential nomination. Mondale draws a $150,000 annual salary from the Chicago-based law firm of Winston & Strawn, working out of its Washington office. He hit the lecture circuit, charging fees of up to $20,000 and earning about...
...back or, for most, even a faint hope of gold, silver or bronze medals. U.S. athletes in the "minor" winter sports of biathlon, Nordic skiing, bobsled, luge and ski jumping have won only one silver and one bronze since 1956. But despite archaic equipment, meager training and, in most cases, pitifully small funding, they persist against the lavishly bestowed resources of Scandinavia, East Germany and the U.S.S.R. And this year, while perhaps only four have medal prospects, the 50 or so plucky Olympians have dreams of personal bests and extra effort that will bring the U.S. a wisp more respect...
...Green managed to stay in last night's contest until only seven minutes remained, when Harvard was toying with a meager one-point lead. Early in the second half, Dartmouth even erased a 10-point deficit and turned it into a one basket advantage...
...meager one-hour-a-week TV watcher, Fowler, 42, came by his libertarian philosophy gradually. The son of a Toronto tobacco wholesaler, he moved to the U.S. at ten and later went to college and law school at the University of Florida. During those years, he supported himself as a disc jockey and program director for small-market radio stations. In 1968 he traveled to Indiana to work on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. Later, moving to Washington to join the city's busy network of communications lawyers, he came to the conclusion that the complex FCC rules...