Word: meagerness
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...National Park Service is beginning to drag to safety some of the carved stones that are not too big to load onto trucks. Other carvings will be quarried free from the solid rock. A public campaign has been organized to raise money to supplement the Park Service's meager ($8,000) appropriation, but not all the carvings can be saved from the water. Next best is to copy them accurately, and Sculptor James Hansen and his wife Annabelle are doing this by making impressions in melted...
...Vistula. For 63 days the Poles fought desperately, while the Russians stood idly by as German artillery and bombers crushed the uprising. Author Korbonski, who left his country two years after the Russians finally moved in, now wonders whether "it was worthwhile to shed so much blood for such meager results" but believes that at the time it was the only thing to do and recalls nostalgically that the years in the underground blended "with the memories of our best years...
...only climate possible for human life itself. Yet this peace we seek cannot be born of fear alone. There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples. There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak. Splendid as can be the blessings of such a peace, high will be its cost: in toil patiently sustained, in help honorably given, in sacrifice calmly borne...
...another European capital, the investigators grumbled about their meager counterpart allowance ($100 daily apiece), complained about their hotel rooms (de luxe), threatened to "make it tough" for any official who failed to come across with any of a variety of services they demanded. "If you don't give us the treatment we expect," announced one of them to a high U.S. official, "you're out. We'll take care of you when we get back to Washington." At one point, Investigator Johnson cabled then-SHAPE Commander General Alfred Gruenther, demanded an airplane to fetch them for delivery...
...Jordan inherited from ex-coach Art Valpey a team which had won only one of nine games the previous year. Three years later Jordan produced the College's first winning season since 1946. But after three winning seasons, his teams began the descent which ended this fall in a meager 2-6 record...