Word: meagerness
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...satisfied with himself. In 1926 he canceled 31 U. S. engagements, broke a contract to make phonograph records, sailed for Europe. In Paris he settled down with his bride of two years to study all over again. There and in Berlin he worked hard, eked out a meager living from music lessons. Last week he walked timidly onto the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall to show what he had learned in a decade...
...read that they have been eating hot tamales in which the tender meat was the flesh of Mexican babies. Consuelo Segura, 30, confessed to kidnapping 326 babies which she sold to one Manuela Frias, wife of a petty government employe, who said she eked out her husband's meager pay by murdering the infants and converting their flesh into tamales...
...years from 6 to 18. Pa Jones insists on running his elder son and daughter according to the rules of his youthful days. There is the pleading for the use of the family car, the warning to come home before twelve, and the troubles of a son's meager allowance that hearken back to days not far remote for many of us now. After continued rebukes for his nagging by his own old mother, and his 17-year-old son's timely first-aid treatment of a little brother, Pa Jones finally softens up, rewarding the boy with a secondhand...
...mountains hurled the little Lolo citadels from their peaks into the valleys, like shot-putters at practice. They threw avalanches into the gorges of the tributary Yangtze rivers. For five hours Chiang's cherished line of last defense undulated and crumbled. It was a week before the first meager tidings trickled down the Yangtze to Nanking...
...Italian soldiers and workers sleep stark naked in the streets to escape the heat; others toil in a blistering sun without cork helmets and still others beg money from Arab sailors to buy food, which they are unable to buy with their meager...