Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was mildly encouraging. But when the munitions workers looked in the papers to see how their planes, tanks and guns were doing, they found scant news of them...
Just as carefully they refrained from confirming or denying one of the most significant reports since the Russian counteroffensive began: that Russian forces have flanked the central German armies around Smolensk and have pushed into White Russia, a scant 70 to 85 miles from the old Polish frontier...
...Dartmouth had too much power and by winning the 400 yard free style relay, which was the most crucial race of the meet, the Indians were able to overcome the four point lead the Crimson had built up and to win the meet by a scant three points...
...troops at the rail paid scant attention; they were in no mood for music and speeches. To welcoming Britons who had expected U.S. capers, a hoary sergeant major explained: "We're just getting mad. We'll wipe...
Less than 36 hours later torpedoes caught the 6,768-ton British tanker Coimbra some 60 miles from the Norness attack scene, a scant 20 miles from Southampton, L.I., only 100 miles east of New York City, and left it sinking...