Word: scant
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Some of Africa's failures can be traced to the shortcomings of its leaders. As in most new countries, the first Presidents and Premiers were primarily freedom fighters, with scant experience in statecraft. Still, few nations have leaders more dedicated or imaginative than Tanzania's Nyerere, Niger's Hamani Diori and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, like Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, is an elder statesman who has imposed a degree of stability on his heterogeneous country. Of the soldiers who now rule nine African nations, at least two-Nigeria...
...asked, or Sister Elizabeth, anything but Sister Lizzie, which everyone calls her, and makes her sound so young. Her father, a prosperous contractor who is now dead, and her mother came from Ireland in the early '20s; she was a twin in a family of nine. There is scant sympathy at home for her work in the peace movement. When her youngest brother brought the bail money to free her last week, he told her that the family thought that she had probably done everything the Government charged her with "and a lot more things...
...proposal was given scant chance of passage even by its Democratic backers, and less by Administration officials, who voiced only token opposition. It blooped through Congress largely because none of its opponents bothered to stop...
...petition's 60 signatures-although only a scant percentage of Radcliffe's 18,500 alumnae, represented a cross-section of classes from 1920 to 1969. Hel-man, chairman of the meeting, feels that "the numbers were significant in that it was the only concerted consensus. No one else has circulated petitions, either...
...Russian Jews would have had no hope." Despite last week's turnabouts in Spain and the Soviet Union, however, Woodrow Wilson's conviction that "opinion ultimately governs the world" remains eminently debatable. Though it helped to stay the firing squads in Burgos and Leningrad, that fact holds scant comfort for the 26 convicted dissidents, who still face long and harsh years of imprisonment despite their year-end rescue from execution...