Word: scant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milwaukee, the sentimental citizenry was buying 10,000 copies a week of a book of photographs (enlivened with scant text and pen sketches) called The Story of "Gertie"-all about a duck who hatched six eggs in the heart of the financial district while thousands cheered...
...Roosevelt Administration was dead with its leader; after a scant three months, the Truman Administration was in full flower. Harry Truman, while following Roosevelt policies in general, was determined to pursue them with...
...soldier art works chosen from some 9,000 specimens sent in from nine service commands. The result was a vast roll call of brave artistic tries-much that was derivative, much that was halting, some that was more than competent. Most of the works were produced in scant off-hours...
...State Stettinius insisted on giving the smaller power powers a chance to speak their respective pieces and ceremoniously went through the sham of listening to them, the Russians always maintained the truth of the Big Three position. Stettinius, Professor Sorokin indicated, let them talk but gave their opinions scant weight in plotting the ultimate decisions of the Big Three...
Later the War Department frisked Wedemeyer's memory for tidbits about Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and other Nazis. It showed scant interest in his incisive opinions about the Wehrmacht's masterminds and master weapons. Only one man took the captain's technical report seriously-Brigadier General George Marshall, then assistant chief of staff of the War Plans Division. Marshall had a long talk with the military student from Germany. When he became Chief of Staff, he remembered Wedemeyer...