Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scant days remained before his concert at the St.-Tropez Festival, and Pianist Byron Janis, 39, was staring straight into the jaws of une véritable débâcle. His new white dinner jacket, a double-breasted poem in paper limned especially for him by Haute Couturier Pierre Cardin, had proved a grabber in the armpits. "Rush me another," pled the pianist. "I have to move my arms...
...unsettling task was just what confronted the Israeli armed forces last June when they assaulted Syria's Golan Heights. But after Israel's swift and decisive campaigns in the Sinai and on the west bank, the bitter, bloody Battle of Golan Heights seemed almost anticlimactic. It got scant attention in news reports already concentrating on Israel's overall victory. Now, as military censors release the first detailed accounts of the fight for those rugged hilltops, the battle can be recognized as a classic of its kind-a case history of the triumph of tactics and courage over...
...Worst Time. A shutdown could hardly hit the industry at a worse time. Because assembly lines stopped relatively early for model changeovers this year, inventories of 1967 models are down to a scant 41-day supply-which means that some dealers are already short of cars. Production of 1968 models, for which the automakers have high sales hopes, went into full swing only last week. In St. Louis to unveil...
...Changjin Reservoir. Truman, in his decision not to bomb Red China, came the closest to exercising civilian authority in a framework of limited war. Lyndon Johnson, on the other hand, worried about whether he should allow the Air Force to bomb a power plant in Hanoi that stood a scant li miles from Ho Chi Minh's home. Ultimately, he did. It is such concern with minutiae that best illustrates the key fact about Viet Nam: it is a war in which the political factors exert more control than they did in any war in U.S. history...
...pace of the war, the continual second-guessing by critics and outsiders who argue that it should never have been undertaken in the first place, and that it is being badly prosecuted. Last week, with the broadening of the target list in North Viet Nam to permit strikes a scant ten miles from China, the outcries reached a new pitch...