Word: meagerness
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Lest you give the impression that there is any "Scotchness" about the Irish, I should like to point out for the record as an Irishman who traveled on the Dublin-Belfast train that the custom is to throw a raol into the Boyne when passing and not a meager penny as you said...
...governor, Ruiz Cortines made a sound, unsensational record. He appointed commissions to check all state bureaus for graft, and he doubled the state's meager funds by cajoling laggard taxpayers into paying up. At Jalapa, the state capital, he lived in a small cottage outside town and walked to work. Once, when he stopped at a resort hotel in Fortin, he was given a suite. He asked the rate and was told it was 100 pesos. "Don't you think I can solve my problems just as well for 25 pesos?" he asked, and moved to a single...
...reason: instead of wasting paper by heaving it all into one basket, GSA trashmen now sort the scrap into eight piles graded according to recovery value. Thus old income-tax records bring $60 a ton, engineering maps $90, and corrugated containers $20, while mixed scrap formerly brought a meager...
Scientists of two land-poor but technically skilled countries, Japan and Israel, are already looking into the process. If Israel, for instance, were to cover half of its meager area with algae farms, it could produce, theoretically, enough protein to feed the whole world...
...Madrid radio orchestra in 1946. There he did so well (80 concerts in one year) that the bid to the National Orchestra followed quickly. Under his baton, the National has become a polished instrument, despite the fact that it has no hall and that its men live on a meager $30 a month, plus an allowance for a new suit of tails every two years...