Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl, who had made the voters many promises, would now have scant funds with which to fulfill them. Since the election, he has sulked and pouted, refused advice and shunned public appearances...
...Photographers who were allowed to snap the scene from a distance of 25 ft. saw Mr. Truman chopping the air with his hands as he talked. Forrestal, it was announced later, had simply reported on a recent six-day trip he had taken to Europe. The interview lasted a scant 45 minutes and Forrestal flew home again...
...main, the people had voted for no change in a social concept which had been pretty well formulated by Franklin Roosevelt in the years between 1933 and 1937. They had also voted against Republicanism. On the basis of still incomplete returns this week, Dewey in 1948 received but a scant 200,000 votes more than Herbert Hoover in 1928 (the last time the Republicans...
Translator Knox is unconcerned about the Bible as "literature." He paid scant attention to the rich, rhythmic prose of the King James version. He worked directly from the Latin, Hebrew and Greek texts, hoping to get the sense across and letting the poetry fall where it might. But he avoided using a specifically modern idiom because it would soon be obsolete again; his aim was to achieve a kind of timeless English...
...Only a scant few hours before the kickoff did the customary gaiety appear. It came out of bottles and punch bowls. It appeared simultaneously all over Cambridge, and it finally dispatched the largest October crowd in recent Cambridge history over the Larz Anderson bridge. By the time fans poured into the Stadium, they were almost rollicking...