Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auspicious beginning for coach Larry Coolidge, Crimson crews won all except the first freshman race in the five-event regatta. By far the closest and most exciting race of the afternoon was the J.V. victory, won by a scant four feet...
...Downs finished second in the broad jump, which the Cadets figured to sweep, losing by the scant margin of one inch. Pat Liles was third, just two inches behind winner John Hoas of Army, even though he severely twisted his ankle before the meet...
...Party outside the Iron Curtain, and he promised Nikita Khrushchev that Indonesian Reds would deliver 8,000,000 ballots if elections "were held tomorrow" (in the 1957 regional election the Reds became Indonesia's top party with 6,940,000 votes). All this had been done in a scant ten years, for Communist prestige in Indonesia was at zero after the Reds tried to pull a coup in 1948, which was easily crushed and its leaders executed. But Aidit had problems too. He lingered in. Moscow long after the Congress was over, presumably to explain his difficulties...
Like most of the Chancellor's defenses of his title, this one was calculated to have other effects too. It gave the Christian Democrats, who can now count only a scant six-vote majority in the July electoral-college balloting, a presidential nominee able and popular enough to match the opposition Social Democrats' popular and widely known candidate, Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid. It also appeased Ruhr industrialists, who, because industrial production tumbled 8% in January-the sharpest drop in seven years-and because 14 million tons of unsold coal are piled up around Rhineland pits, long...
Musical archivists may show scant interest in the warbling of Dorothy Collins and Johnny Desmond, but a player-piano version of Rhapsody in Blue, plunked out by Gershwin himself in 1937, is of historical interest...