Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Templer's orders were 1) to smash the Communists, 2) to weld Malayans-Malays, Chinese, Indians and British alike-into a sturdy, self-governing democracy within the Commonwealth. Objective No. 2 was impossible in a scant two years, yet Templer pledged himself, "mind and body," to fight for this political, economic and social "second front." He brought to his job demoniac energy, a streak of ruthlessness, a flair for jungle fighting (he once was bayonet fighting champion of the British army) and a sensibility that dumfounded those leftist British critics who had objected to his appointment out of fear...
...Technician crew countered the Crimson bid by raising its stroke to around 37 and slipped across the line a scant six feet ahead. M.I.T.'s winning time was 6:50.6; Harvard finished in 6:51 and Dartmouth...
...stranglehold which realism has on the modern theatre is leading to the deterioration of drama, acting, and imagination, John Burrell told a scant audience at New Lecture Hall yesterday...
...judges and six jurors considered the evidence briefly and returned their verdict: not guilty. Presiding Judge Fritz Eickhoff explained that the officers actually responsible for the crime were long since dead and that the defendants them selves had acted under orders. "Because of their scant formal education," he concluded, "the defendants failed to realize that they committed a misdeed...
...John Knox could hold a congregation rapt and on its feet for three hours, and Jonathan Edwards used to keep the attention of New England Congregationalists for a good two hours at a stretch. Today the model of a modern minister is expected to occupy the pulpit for a scant 20 minutes of a Sunday and put in hours on end as an amateur psychiatrist, sociologist and group-activities organizer. Yet there are still a few top-notch preachers around to keep the Protestant tradition alive...