Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with two days and $2 billion of aggressive buying. Yet even as it is unloaded by speculators, the dollar has become so common across the vast old communist territories that an estimated 50% of the populace in the former Soviet Union, for instance, keeps most of its meager savings in U.S. currency...
...that "no one wept, no one expressed sorrow, no one asked how anyone died." After his release in 1964, he was sent to a coal mine, where he worked 13 years, until the dust ruined his lungs. From then on, after marrying and raising three children, he lived on meager rations and edible roots in a remote village near the Chinese frontier...
Bonfili and Coffey seemed optimistic in spite of the meeting's meager turnout. "People realized we'd be talking about these resolutions Sunday and didn't want to give up another night," Coffey said...
Penn's defense, giving up just 5.8 points per game this year, held Yale to a meager 58 yards rushing. The Elis' touchdown was only the second of the year against the Quakers...
Before the collapse of communism, all Russian museums got government support, meager though it was by Western standards; but now, laments Piotrovsky, "even the Hermitage is getting much less than it was getting before." The financial crunch has revived talk of selling off items from the collection, as the Hermitage did in the 1920s; but that, the director points out, would be "a disaster -- you have only to begin, and you will finish and the museum has nothing...