Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rare stillness suffused Saturday morning in Sarajevo. With the guns silent for a moment, parents gathered up their hungry children and headed for the market to barter for what meager supplies of food and clothing had made it through Serbian lines. Saturday is traditionally the busiest shopping day in the besieged city, and a sense of normality emerged from the bustle of activity in Sarajevo's main marketplace...
Harvard Bookstore: This staid bookstore was unashamed of its relatively meager collection of lusty pageturners. "No, no, no. We don't carry contemporary schmaltz. Certainly not," one staffer said...
Butler currently leads the Ivy League in scoring with 18 points per game, but only tallied eight this weekend. The forward starter shot a meager--by Butlerian standards, anyway--23 percent from the field...
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, most of the 326 students in the chemistry class vie for the room's meager 250 seats. "Late-comers"--those who don't arrive at class before 8:55 a.m. for the 9:07 lecture--are often relegated to the aisles or the back of the room...
...rains have been plentiful, and the sorghum is growing. Still, in southern Sudan the old, the young and the weak are dying of starvation: a frail child is barely able to share a meager meal with his father at a feeding center; a desperately weak man stares at a bowl of water; another is huddled by the remains of a fire with a packet of rehydration salts. As earlier in Ethiopia and Somalia, this famine is in part the result of civil war. Initially the fighting pitted the Muslim government in Khartoum against Christian rebels in the south...