Word: meagerness
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...from other camps who were too frail to continue their slave labor. The population of 15,000 Jews was swollen by thousands of new prisoners, most of them starved and diseased after weeks of forced marches. By early 1945 Bergen-Belsen held 41,000 inmates. Rations were less than meager. Inmates were beaten and abused. There was virtually no medical attention, and epidemics broke out. In March 1945 nearly 20,000 people died either from starvation, typhus or maltreatment. One of the victims was a 15-year-old Dutch girl, Anne Frank...
...contrast, neither team could find its rhythm in the third game. Although Harvard only posted a meager .195 hitting percentage, Rutgers practically gave the frame away with a .146 rate of its own. Still, the Crimson would barely escape with a 31-29 victory to keep the match alive for one more game...
...seemed like anywhere you looked last week, there was a major car company in crisis. Britain's MG Rover was the worst off. On Friday, with its already-meager sales sliding, its cash depleted and its last hope for an 11th-hour rescue by a Chinese buyer seemingly dashed, the four Birmingham businessmen who owned the outfit handed it over to administrators from accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Some 6,000 workers at Rover's Longbridge factory in Birmingham fear for their jobs, despite British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown racing to the plant, promising...
...meager amount of petroleum purported to be buried in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Senate Republicans have not only mortgaged the future of a swath of unspoiled wilderness, they have cast their respect for America’s political process in doubt...
Contrast that with the somewhat less formal “Ambiguous Unnamed Study Break” in Straus A, where boxed ice cream consumed in the stairwell by a meager three students is the norm...