Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scant four and a half hours before the resounding Big Three communiqué was released in Washington, the White House made public another document, as important in its own way as the message from Yalta...
Unhappy Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. could find scant comfort last week in these lines from the Song of Solomon, source of the title of his standing-room-only hit, The Voice of the Turtle. In Manhattan and Chicago, the Voice's two companies were putting up a losing fight against winter, rain, snow and sniffles. First, Star Betty Field (who replaced Margaret Sullavan in the Manhattan cast last month) came down with flu. Hollywood's Florence Rice took her place. Then Actress Rice began to sniffle. Producer de Liagre raided his Chicago company, had Understudy Nancy Holland...
When such notable figures as Winthrop Aldrich and Dr. B. M. Anderson sniped at the plans, it looked as if the bankers would have no more than scant praise for any part of the Bretton Woods doings...
...called time out, but the Bellboy drive continued until Lowell went ahead by three points. Three seconds before the final buzzer, with F-G holding a scant one point lead, Fred Donahoe tossed a long, low shot into the basket to give Lowell the victory...
...Jayvees' triumph over Exeter was their sixth of the season and their second over Exeter. Coach Samborski found opportunity to throw 12 men into the tray after his charges' 25 to 11 halftime lead, and saw his team hold the opposition to a scant five points in the second half...