Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant summer issue...
...dedicated TV-watcher, and the TV industry, the bible of the business is the pocket-size, 15? weekly TV Guide. In a scant 2½ years, it has become a standard fixture in thousands of U.S. living rooms, and the last official check by the Audit Bureau of Circulation (in the first quarter of 1955) showed newsstand sales of 2,378,000, thus made it the biggest weekly newsstand seller in the nation...
...England, the Anglican Church Times put the problem on to boil again. "It is common knowledge that, in the present state of England, many parents bring their children to the font to be 'done' with scant knowledge of what is really involved . . . Statistics show that roughly two-thirds of the children baptized in infancy are never brought to confirmation...
...record-matching half-mile run by Britain's Brian Hewson was scant consolation for the crowd at London's White City Stadium, as Hungary's Laszlo Tabori whipped Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a slow mile (4:05) and three-mile race (13:44.6), to help the Hungarians win a dual meet...
From his stone observation post, a scant 300 ft. from the Bulgarian border, Arkoudas and a handful of tough, mustached Greek soldiers saw an aircraft coming over the Ograzden mountain, which rises nearly 6,000 ft. on the Bulgarian side of the Strumica river valley. The plane, a plainly marked Lockheed Constellation of El Al Israel Airlines, was about ten miles away and approaching...