Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian hosts had outdone themselves with their new 3,300-seat stadium, aisy-ft. ski-jump tower, 63 miles of ski runs, and 40 mobile kitchens. Perhaps the Italians had organized things too well. Scared away by warnings that hotel space was scant, too many fans stayed home with their television sets. But those who did come found a unique spectacle-one not confined to breakneck competition (see below). The chill of dusk in the Alps, the comfort of yellow lights in windows at that hour, the mountains them selves were a great spectacle to people who had come from...
...Olympics have traditionally gone to Finns and Swedes, but at Cortina they were not in a class with a Leningrad student named Lyubov Kozyreva, who must have done her homework stretching her cross-country stride. She swung over the lo-kilometer (6.2-mile) course in 38:11, scant yards in front of Teammate Radiya Eroshina...
...former LIFE Education Editor David B. Dreiman (Harper; $3.50)-Chairman Larsen, son of a Canadian journalist, explains exactly why he took on the job: "To me, as a first-generation American, the public schools literally translated into reality the American ideal of equality of opportunity . . . When I learned-a scant 30 years after graduating from high school-that the schools were in trouble, I felt that I must do what I could to help." As Larsen had already found out, the schools were indeed in trouble. In 1949, 250,000 pupils were on split classroom shifts, and half...
Sargent learned the lessons of his chosen masters brilliantly and soon. It was in Paris, at a scant 27, that he proved himself a painter of felicity and not just flair. His Daughters of Edward D. Bolt (opposite) found a place at the Salon of 1883, and in the minds of men. One critic dis missed it instantly as "four corners and a void." Novelist Henry James was more discerning: "The naturalness of the composition," he wrote, "the loveliness of the complete effect, the light, free security of the execution, the sense it gives us as of assimilated secrets...
...Federation looked back over its football season and reported a grim fact: six youngsters died as a result of injuries. Heads hitting against the ground, knees or helmets accounted for four fatal concussions; one player died of a fractured vertebra; the sixth died of a ruptured kidney. There was scant consolation in the discovery that the death rate of .90 per 100,000 players was the second lowest on record. Lowest: 1952, with...