Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a walkout that paralyzed rail traffic for two days before President Johnson, with hasty congressional sanction, ordered a 90-day cooling-off period. The railroads' working capital is lower than it has been in 20 years, and their return on investment capital this year will be a scant 3.5%. Deciding that the industry complaints were "just and reasonable," the ICC unanimously agreed to give the railroads most of the money they sought...
...another when the going gets tough. One night last May, a lone squad of Viet Cong-a dozen men-staged an attack on the headquarters of a 25th division battalion, killing 31 ARVN soldiers and three U.S. advisers. The battalion's three rifle companies were dug in a scant 300 yards away-and stayed there listening to the shooting while their comrades died...
Despite the staggering amount of matter written in recent years about civil rights and the American Negro, it is appalling how scant the knowledge of Negro history is among the white portion of our society. But it is just as true that the Negroes themselves are by and large woefully ignorant of their own past and of the many important figures who have dotted it ever since the birth in James-town during 1624 of William Tucker, the first Negro child born in the United States. Part of the blame for this general ignorance can be squarely laid...
...current standards at least, tricked the Indians into selling him a site including most of what is today, in all its greenery, Essex County for $700 worth of gunpowder, lead, axes, kettles, pistols, swords, beer and a number of other items. As recently as 1950, Negroes constituted a scant 17% of Newark's population. With the rush to the suburbs by whites in the affluent era that followed, and the northward hegira of Negro refugees from Dixie, the black population is now estimated at 50% to 55% and even more, making Newark the only major city in the North...
...attitude of many older Germans when it called the student protests "a declaration of war against society." Other observers, however, applaud the youthful activities. They see it all as a fitting reaction to the authoritarianism that is still prevalent on German campuses. They blame student attitudes on the scant attention paid to the nation's overcrowded educational facilities while the rest of the country has prospered, and on the stifling of political debate since Brandt's opposition Social Democrats joined the ruling Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition in Bonn...