They are due to go out to a movie, but he picks up the bra she has laid out on the bed — "a white brassiere containing the foam-rubber cups without which her chest was as meager as a boy's" — and waves it in her face, saying, "Why d'ya wear these goddamn things?" Fallon tears out of the house, goes drinking, dances at a club, and tries to pick up a woman who isn't interested.
Meals are so meager that many boys lose weight.
It's meant to force K-12 schools to tell the story, through data, of how they are serving girl athletes, a cohort historically relegated to worn-out fields, undesirable practice schedules and meager sports options compared to boy athletes.
It was through this incredible book that I discovered Fugazi, Black Flag, Bad Brains, The Minutemen, The Replacements, Husker Du, and a slew of other life-shaping artists whose cassettes and CDs I purchased every week from Wherehouse Music or Go Boy Records with my meager allowance.
According to the authorities, the boys were fed a meager diet that included pancake batter, and they ate wallboard and insulation to try to sate their hunger.
On a good day, the boys will combine their meager earnings and pay to sleep on the floors of migrant camps on the outskirts of town, where persecuted people from all over East Africa live in corrugated shanties in the desert.
In a matter of a few hours their meager belongings have been scrounged together, the boy's body has been deposited near the hospital, and the brothers are headed north toward Montana with less than $400 between them.
Relying on bribes and half-truths, he smuggles an expedition of 16 scientists and 130 porters into one of the most remote and malarial corners of the world without official permission or a doctor — just a first-aid kit so meager it wouldn't have served a Boy Scout camp-out.
c) Influence on Health: Women's health is affected in following ways: Malnutrition Except the post-delivery period in case of the male baby, when higher allowances are given so that boy can be breastfed, generally meager nutritional allocation and repeated pregnancies make them malnourished.
When Parvana's father is arrested, she must disguise herself as a boy in order to earn a meager living for her family (becoming the "breadwinner"), while trying to free her father.
