Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struck farther south, where Russian soldiers, advancing under heavy German air attacks, occupied the fortress of Kerch and the town of Feodosiya in eastern Crimea. Once Crimea is again in Russian hands (the naval base of Sevastopol is still under German siege), Soviet planes will be based a scant 100 miles from the German-dominated Rumanian coast, the Soviet Fleet again will be an offensive weapon in the Black Sea, and Germany's threat to the oil of the Caucasus will be weakened...
These words were almost a century old last week, and almost a hundred times as ironic as their author, Sir James Brooke, the first swashbuckling white Raja of Sarawak in Borneo, thought they ever would be. For last week evildoers with scant respect for the English union jack descended on his Sarawak...
Skeleton-thin (760 mi. long, 30 to 150 mi. wide) Baja California, like the west coast of Mexico proper, has no adequate Pacific defenses. Its once bootleg-whiskey-rich northern town of Ensenada is a scant 8 1 motor miles from the U.S. naval base at San Diego. The area is extremely vulnerable, despite its deserts and mountains...
...American liner watched the planes swoop down over Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field, commended the U.S. Navy's thoughtfulness in staging a big-scale war game on Sunday morning. An American automobile salesman, en route to Tientsin, gawked admiringly as a bomb whooshed into the harbor a scant 100 yards away: "Boy! What if that had been a real one?" The perspiring ship's officer who finally broke the bad news flubbed his lines: "It seems there's a state of undeclared war between Honolulu and the United States...
...scant two months and two weeks since Adolf Hitler had announced to the German nation: "I say that this enemy is already smashed and will never rise again...