Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Granted, the prospects for the Boston Republican Party are not bright as to power or future, but this is scant justification for steadfastly going backwards. No matter how honest an administration is at any point in time, the one-party system engendered by such a sellout is automatically dangerous. A system abhorred by democrats since the beginning of this nation, it produces corruption and irresponsibility in governments originally pure. For all of their sincere and intelligent civic mindedness, the prominent Republicans must bear a share of responsibility in this matter...
...scant 12 of the 25 varsity soccer players invited to return for pre-season practice have appeared this week, the smallest turnout since Bruce Munro has been coaching at Harvard. Freshman coach Andrew "Polly" Guyda hopes for a better showing when the '55 candidates adjourn at 3:30 p.m. Monday on the Business School Field...
...escape it, but you may get to like it. Even freshmen will find scant protection against the ravages of joint instruction this year...
...Coast League has long suffered from a combination of geography and pride. Such cities as San Francisco and Los Angeles are big league towns by population standards, but they have scant chance of getting a major league franchise until such time as the majors are willing to ship their valuable athletes around by plane from game to game. Meanwhile, as Western fans see it, the Pacific Coast cities are permanently condemned to second-grade baseball, played mainly by greenhorns and has-beens, while the big league teams in the East drain off such stars as Joe and Dom DiMaggio, Larry...
Harry Camberly's best friend could not have awakened from his afternoon snooze at a more awkward moment. A scant 20 feet from his screening bamboo thicket, on a deserted white strand of Riviera beach, lay Harry's blonde wife Eve and a sinewy French mechanic, making love. Harry's friend squeezed his eyes shut, but his mind ticked on furiously. "How could Eve prostrate herself in that atrocious way! What lunatic filth presumed in that man's upstart mind to lay a finger on her!" Suddenly, he "felt like murder." Harry's friend might...