Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives of Christ (The Nazarene) and St. Paul (The Apostle). In both earlier books Asch had a dramatic lifeline to follow, and he followed it skillfully, feeding in a fascinating mass of scholarly wrinkles, though often he enlarged on Gospel truth. On Mary's life the Scripture is scant, and Asch had to enlarge still further. The result is a careful, reverent but sugar-sweet assembly of Aschpocrypha...
...armed with 500,000 silver dollars and 10,000 40-ft. bolts of cloth for winter uniforms. "I'll console and comfort my old troops," said Fu. They needed comfort, for they had not been paid in the past six months and their summer uniforms would be' scant protection in the severe winter ahead...
...tailor's screaming wife. He pushed into a neighboring house, found a fear-stricken woman and her 16-year-old son, shot both of them with his last bullets. Then he went back to his upstairs bedroom, leaving twelve dead, one dying and three wounded in a scant twelve minutes that had no counterpart in U.S. crime history...
There seemed to be scant applause from the fleet. Since V-J day most of the complaining civilians have disappeared. "Why pockets?" grumbled one bosun's mate 1st class. "As soon as we get them the Navy will have a regulation that we can't put anything in them...
...these early years, the new biography by the poet's grandson, Charles Tennyson, supplies much material never published before; Alfred hated to talk about them and his son, Hallam, had to scant them in his standard memoir of 50 years ago. Nothing, however, could so testify to Tennyson's magnetic power as this veneration by the second and third generations of his family. Charles, a distinguished lawyer and civil servant who is now 70 himself, remembers his towering grandfather in old age, shuffling downstairs in the morning and extending his great withered brown hand to the children...