Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again, Maki sent his men scurrying upward before early monsoons. They made a base camp at 24,000 ft. and rested for their predawn assault. Near the summit the air was dead calm, and the climbers hacked steps that took them up the final 2,658 ft. in a scant six hours. On the sun-drenched summit they stayed long enough to take pictures and offer Buddhist prayers. Two days later, a second team climbed the peak...
...Undaunted by a length-and-a-quarter loss to Yale in the Carnegie Cup race on the Housatonic River Cornell's crew came back on the choppy waters of the Potomac to lick the Elis by a scant 3 ft. in the sprint championship of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges...
...hectic duel between Cornell and Yale, in which the Big Red emerged victorious by a scant two feet, was a reversal of last week's Carnegie Cup race, when loser Cornell caught a crab at the finish. Yale apparently caught one this week about four strokes from the finish, and this possibly spelled the difference...
...which would have left the University a meek rubble of brick, mortar, and Ibi. He foresaw glistening acres of tarmac parking space which would extend as far as the eye could see, asserting yet another advance of Urban Renewal. To avenge his initial defeat, which came by an encouragingly scant one-vote margin, Al will again propose seizure of University property, this time "by eminent domain." It is gratifying to know that Cambridge citizens are aware of this hallowed judicial principle...
...believe this mission from Moscow adds up to failure. True, the joint communiqué of Premier Bulganin and Prime Minister Eden suggests scant agreement on anything important. But benefits may be measured in less tangible terms, and we think that these are a few such benefits...