Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once set up shop as a portrait painter. At first he borrowed poses and tony backgrounds from his step father's mezzotints, and tricks of color and modeling from his elders in Boston's portrait-painting fraternity. But he soon found he could go farther by paying scant attention to the modes and strict attention to his models. He thought nothing of spending 100 hours on a portrait, advanced as much by elbow grease as by genius. Early in his career he reached a pedestrian conclusion that lent wings to his art: he decided that his paintings were...
...lowest of the low that he could reasonably ask." But after signing a construction contract, Niarchos believes in letting the shipbuilder do the job without niggling interference. Though the World Glory was the world's biggest tanker when it was launched in 1954, Niarchos gave Bethlehem Shipbuilding a scant four pages of specifications instead of the usual 4-lb. tome; he sent no inspectors aboard until just before the tanker was launched...
Unhealthy Prognosis. In Chicago Democratic Chairman Paul Butler purpled over the unequivocal approval of a re-election campaign given by Ike's surgeon, Major General Leonard D. Heaton, a scant ten hours after the operation (TIME, June 18). Butler condemned Republicans for practicing a "new science of politico-medicine." In Chicago Dr. David Allman, who last week was chosen president-elect of the American Medical Association, burbled (without examining any of the subjects) that the President would now be "in better physical condition than any of his opponents-Republican or Democratic-have been at any time in their lives...
...time has come to advance NATO from its initial phase into the totality of its meaning," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. "Let us exalt freedom by showing better what freedom can do." Thus, a scant six weeks ago, the U.S. signaled a major new direction in foreign policy. By last week the State Department had set up a six-man staff that was hard at work translating Dulles' challenging words into some specific proposals. The U.S. aim is to gather the 15 NATO nations into a new regional association under the U.N. Charter, roughly similar...
Like every circus worthy of the name, Trapeze offers plenty of exciting sideshows, and the favorite distraction is sure to be Gina Lollobrigida, who keeps drifting across the screen in pretty, scant costumes. Gina is a lowly trampolinist who wants to fly high, and she keeps trying to climb the rigging with the "catcher" (Lancaster) in the aerial act, but Burt will not give her a tumble. He does all his catching on the high bar with Tony Curtis, and he refuses to let a woman come between them. But Gina keeps pitching those curves, and pretty soon both Burt...