Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behavioristic chronicle with scant interest in good behavior, End As a Man is the work of a gifted scene-writer who has still to become a playwright. Some of his play runs too long, some of it goes too far, while thematically the whole thing goes nowhere in particular. Mr. Willingham's play does not reveal how much the military academy itself is to blame-either through what it fosters or what it fails to prevent. But the play offers a number of telling, harshly humorous incidents; and thanks to the acting (notably of William Smithers, Ben Gazzara...
...recommended that the U.S. could do to make it easier for venture capital. But the big job of attracting U.S. capital, OIT implied, is squarely up to the foreign governments themselves. Unless they relax import controls and other obstacles, there is scant hope that they will get much expansion in U.S. investments...
...quarter-century ago, warm-weather designs were becoming so scant that an ananymous writer commented, "Give feminine fashions time enough and they will starve all the moths to death." Apparently, they haven't had enough time, and the moth is far from extinction. For a while, bathing suits threatened to disappear under the French influence, but they are once again coming into use as an article of clothing. Dresses, suits, and blouses are not spare of material, either...
Strasser argued that it was "undemocratic" for one-quarter of the Collage to have only one-tenth strength on the Council. He further urged that freshmen vote during their first semester of office since their scant College grounding would force the Council to carefully define each issue and thus move slowly and "conservatively...
...City's newspapers and magazines support some 40 regular music critics. Their main job is to keep tabs on the city's 1,500-odd concerts, operas and recitals each season. Most of them are journalists first & last, though many are amateur pianists. But, now & then, a scant half dozen expose themselves to brotherly blasts as active composers...