Word: scant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scant 48 hours with the Nixons in Washington were enough to open the sluices of homesickness for Poetaster Mary Wilson, 53, who was once (some say in jest) nominated for the chair of poetry at Oxford. Shortly after returning to England with her husband, the Prime Minister's wife made a guest appearance on BBC radio's Open House hour and misted some British eyes by reciting a bit of original verse entitled I Am Returning Home...
...envisioned that the courtroom would be something like Boston Music Hall, allowing for many spectators. In fact, it was a scant thirty by forty feet, with stylish wood paneling and an attractive skylight overhead. Two long rectangular tables, to be used by the prosecuting and defense attorneys, sat at right angles to the judge's desk, filling the center of the room. The jurors' plush swivel chairs lined the left wall. The seats against the right wall were for the press. In the back of the room, four rows of pew-like benches were reserved for spectators...
...much bigger than the U.S. By curbing disease and death, modern medicine has started a surge of human overpopulation that threatens to overwhelm the earth's resources. At the same time, technological man is bewitched by the dangerous illusion that he can build bigger and bigger industrial societies with scant regard for the iron laws of nature. French Social Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss compares today's human condition to that of maggots in a sack of flour: "When the population of these worms increases, even before they meet, before they become conscious of one another, they secrete certain toxins that...
...punishment that is inherently political in content-punishment against those who are diametrically opposed to the order in power that the CRR represents. The demonstrators who chanted at Dean May were fighting for the just OBU demands, attempting to rectify racist hiring policies that the University has shown scant interest in changing; one can say with certainty that any punishment they may receive from the CRR will not repress the movement for an end to racism at Harvard...
...After a scant half-dozen appearances, mainly at Manhattan's Electric Circus and Fillmore East, plus a single date on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Voices are poised on the edge of what promises to be a spectacular success...