Word: meagerness
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Anecdotal reports leaking out of the country suggest that life for some North Koreans is returning to the dark days of the 1990s famines. Families have been scavenging for wild roots and plants to supplement meager diets. Many children have stopped attending school because of hunger, while their parents are choosing to spend their days searching for food rather than show up for work. "So far, not many people are dying compared to the 1990s, but the situation is still bad," says Ham Myoung Sam, a manager with the Seoul-based aid group Korea Food for the Hungry International...
...Council’s (puritanical / paternalistic / lame-sauce) Student Life Fund. Because the UC no longer distributes party grants, I must buy (Milwaukee’s Best / Bud Light / Malibu—but with PBR chasers, so it’s totally legit) using my own funds, which are (meager / paltry / as of a week ago, worth only 13 percent of their former value) to say the least...
...creators, the entire process has become perverted by the College’s inadequate response to meeting students’ academic needs during the interim. The result: beleaguered upperclassmen with nowhere to turn to fulfill Core requirements and equally frustrated freshmen who are forced to choose between a meager selection of Gen Ed courses and the defunct Core. No student at any point in his or her academic career is immune to this gross deficiency as the College struggles to reconcile the general requirements portion of its curriculum.Instead of a robust selection of exciting new Gen Ed courses for freshmen...
...From meager beginnings as a copyboy, Jerome Holtzman worked his way up, becoming "the Dean" of American baseball writers. A Chicago-based reporter and a columnist for the Sporting News, Holtzman made contributions to the game far beyond the press box. He penned an Encyclopaedia Britannica item on America's pastime and invented the statistic now known as the "save," which is the yardstick by which a relief pitcher's ability to preserve leads is measured. It was baseball's first new official stat since "runs batted in" was introduced in 1920. Holtzman, who won entry to the Baseball Hall...
Until last week, Frank L. was an unknown 41-year old former policeman who worked in geriatric care to supplement his meager welfare stipend, and in his spare time enjoyed an occasional beer at the pub. Last Saturday, though, a moment of vandalism turned Frank L. into something of a national hero, mentioned by some in the same breath as the legendary Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who led a failed assassination attempt against Hitler in 1944. Frank L. accomplished his extraordinary rise from obscurity to national celebrity through a simple act of decapitation...