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Word: scant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uneven. Pat Hingle's J.B. has a homely appeal but has no inwardness; J.B.'s wife and J.B.'s comforters lack the proper skill. Despite its ingenuity and authority, J.B. cannot overcome certain difficulties that philosophic drama is heir to. But in a theater with scant desire even to challenge them, Playwright MacLeish's aims, quite as much as his abilities, have a tonic force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...scheduled to donate blood yesterday, Rothenberg said only 225 appeared at Memorial Hall, and of these a scant 185 were actually able to give blood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive Reaches Goal; Kirkland Takes Lead | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

Downgrading the IRBM. With NATO allies except Britain and Italy showing scant enthusiasm for U.S.-offered intermediate-range missiles, the Pentagon is reappraising the worth of the IRBM, designed for launching from overseas sites, as against the intercontinental missile, designed for launching from U.S. bases. Trend: more reliance on ICBMs, less on IRBMs, which would be of little use in a limited war and would be vulnerable to Russian attacks on overseas bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Ideas Under the Ceiling | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...with the stimulating of them for the purpose of cheap exploitation." The board's solemn summing up of Allen's trespasses: "Their seriousness in terms of a threat to our American way of life is certainly obvious." More to the point: the board is working hard with scant funds to solve an awesome juvenile delinquency problem, does not like to be reminded that it can not yet claim any great success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Undercover Uproar | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Lowell, with a total of $1,261.42, is a scant five dollars ahead of Eliot as the individual leader among the Houses. Adams, with $855.66, has collected least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities Drive May Reach $12,000 Today | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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