Word: meagerness
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...camps. Most of them are little more than bones covered with skin, their faces reduced to huge-eyed skulls. By night, when the temperature can drop into the 40s, they huddle close together in their foxholes; by day, they sit in tiny squatting areas marked off by stones, their meager possessions arranged around them. When shipments of food arrive, local officials, armed with long staves, round up survivors and hand out a few pounds of flour or cereal...
...torchbearers turned out to be remarkable. Winding around and about Southern California these past ten days of the 15,000-km relay, the path traced the same thread that has been tugging at the country since May, a trail of glad tears. George Allen, 62, a football coach of meager perspective who used to say, "Losing is like dying," progressed in one short kilometer to a point where he could admit, "This is more fun than beating Dallas." The great O.J. Simpson, 37, handed off to the great Michael Baily, 7, who has cerebral palsy. Lenore Nicholson-Woodward...
...example, income increased a meager .5%, and Reagan swept...
...sometimes mentioned. Mondale's strategists also talk about Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca, 59, who is nationally celebrated for his corporate grit. But lacocca, ebullient and bossy, probably would not slide easily into a supporting role. Mark White, 44, elected Governor of Texas in 1982, has only a meager track record, but his presence on the ticket could help win his state's 29 electoral votes for the Democrats. If Ohio's 23 electoral votes look pivotal, Mondale might tap Senator John Glenn...
...highest population density in Central America (601 per sq. mi.), similar to that of India, El Salvador is a land that is ideal for guerrilla warfare but pitifully inadequate for the agricultural needs of its people. Salvadoran geography creates some harsh problems: Who owns the country's meager agricultural resources? How should they be put to use? These are among the most important issues in the country's civil...