Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stennis said: "We want to return to our primary assignment of recommending a standard of conduct." In fact, there is scant likelihood that either house will pass anything resembling a workable code of ethics this session. Despite all the demands for a tough code, Congress has dawdled too long to agree on anything so sensitive. Thus, for yet another year, it perpetuates a moral vacuum in which standards of conduct are a matter for the independent judgment of the legislator...
There was scant hope of dialectical deescalation. The New York Times's James Reston and other columnists helped keep the temperatures high. They accused Secretary of State Dean Rusk of having revived the dreaded specter of the "yellow peril" when he told a news conference two weeks ago that the U.S. was in Viet Nam because "within the next decade or two there will be a billion Chinese on the mainland, armed with nuclear weapons, with no certainty about what their attitude toward the rest of Asia will be." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a former college...
...wars and riots, all the cameras point in the same direction-toward where the action is. What could give the coverage distinction is an analysis of the action, but as servants of the tyranny of time, newscasters are compelled to explain only what can be crammed into a few scant minutes...
Picaresque Assets. True to Gaullist form, the French insisted that the U.S. must end that deficit before any S.D.R. are created, but their stand won scant support from other countries. More worrisome was French Finance Minister Michel Debré's demand (supported by West Germany) that IMF's charter be revised to give the Common Market veto power over all future expansion of IMF reserves and the use of IMF loans by debt-laden countries. "If we don't get our way," threatened one European finance chief, "the Americans aren't going to get any monetary...
Certain that they had scant chance of beating the ticket of Chief of State Thieu and Premier Ky, the ten civilian candidates for President claimed fraud almost from the moment the campaign started. A dozen U.S. Senators, led by Robert Kennedy and Jacob Javits, echoed their claim that the election campaign was a "farce" and a "charade." It was to counter such senatorial critics that President Johnson hastily assembled 22 U.S. observers and dispatched them to Viet Nam as poll watchers...