Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held it under Miller's pace-setting drive until the field rounded into the homestretch, a three-sixteenths-of-a-mile straightaway. Then Star's Pride made a bid from two lengths back, drew almost even. Miller took to the whip, and Lusty Song won by a scant neck...
Well-equipped for what? Certainly not for what happened a scant five months after his return, when the housing of the 24th Division became suddenly not only poor but deplorable...
...Willing Yankee maidens were not at fault; they signed up by the hundreds. The trouble started when the New York Herald howled that Mercer's maidens were headed for Northwest brothels. Reluctantly, two-thirds of his charges saved their reputations by backing out; Mercer managed to get a scant hundred of them on the boat. Because some deserted at San Francisco, an even smaller number actually got to Seattle. Mercer married one of his charges and quickly went out of the importing business forever...
While the dust of the Chinese civil war was settling before the bemused eyes of the State Department, the U.S. paid scant attention to the Indo-Chinese struggle. It seemed largely a local affair between the French and their subjects. Since the dust has settled in China, Asia's Communism is thrusting southward. Indo-China stands first on the path to Singapore, Manila and the Indies...
...basis of comparative scores the Crimson holds a scant advantage. Yale beat Brown, 11 to 7, while the Yardlings won by only 8 to 5. However, Dartmouth beat both teams, pounding the Blues, 8 to 4, while barely nipping the Crimson...