Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realized that to ignore this man would be to ignore a fellow human being who deserved as much respect as anyone else. Instead, I told him the truth about my meager donation as I deposited my remaining four pennies in his cup. He was appreciative, I think more because I spoke to him than for my four pennies...
...delighted to see the Lipper's funds being put to such immediate good use in the Medical School," said Knowles, yet his enthusiasm belies the disappointing result of this donation: Harvard surrendered its chance to become a leader in Holocaust research after a disappointingly meager and questionable search in this vital area. With a greater effort, Harvard easily could have found someone for this important position...
...comes along (which it still might--there are a lot more Giant Killer Asteroids out there where XF11 came from). It could erase only 80% or 90% of the populace. You know, getting back to the old model of a few small, isolated farm communities scrabbling desperately for a meager living might be just the tonic humanity needs to knock out some of its arrogance and softness and regain that good old spiritual edge we used to have back when we were all sacrificing goats to the rain deity and receiving stone tablets on mountaintops. We didn't worry about...
...strong defensive effort and the domination of possession time meant a relaxing day for the goalkeepers. Keith Cynar started and played the first half and Ely Kahn, Art Chen and Matt O'Hare split time in the second. The group faced a meager 22 shots between them...
Cambridge itself boasted a meager 2.1 percent...