He faced agony abroad, then penury in his adopted home.

"Independence, I think, means penury for Wales, not success."

If you're willing to force poor elderly people into even worse penury than they already are, you are their kind of gal.

If that’s true, what conceivable difference could it make whether a few of the dinosaur oil and gas companies want to merge and go into the abyss of bankruptcy and penury holding hands?

I first visited Moscow four decades ago, when it was a city devoid of primary colors eking out existence in the penury of Communism.