Word: scant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to work under Nikolai Lenin's decree: the press was to be "propagandist, agitator and organizer." It still is, although Pravda has long since changed from agitating agin the Government to agitating for, Another Pravda founder, Joseph Stalin, sees to that. It is also intensely nationalist, devotes scant space to news from outside Russia. (It was a day late reporting the Jap surrender...
After almost four years in the Navy. Professor Vernon Parenton was well pleased at the end of his first day back at the old job, teaching sociology at Louisiana State University. All day his classes had been quiet and well-behaved, listening earnestly as he lectured, and paying scant attention to the big dog curled sleepily beneath his desk. It pleased the professor to hear students in the corridors outside shouting boisterous greetings as they recognized old friends back for another term. Professor Parenton himself did not recognize a single face-he could not see any. An exploding ammunition dump...
...stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...
...Leader. The new Premier had scant background in politics or statesmanship. But his royal presence at the head of the Government could be a safeguard for the Imperial institution, and it might allay popular unrest. In the Japanese mind the Prince's relationship to the Emperor is threefold. He is Hirohito's cousin, because he is the grandson of a brother of one of Hirohito's great-grandfathers. He is Hirohito's uncle, because he is married to the sister of Hirohito's father (Emperor Taisho). He is Hirohito's inlaw, because...
Governor in the Harem. The crusade soon got under way again, after a courier brought word of U.S. warships in the harbor of nearby Bomba, a scant 40 miles from Derna...