Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scant fraction of the agency's 15,000-odd employees actually go out into the cold. At Langley's elaborate seventh-floor operations center, a bank of high-speed (100 words per minute) printers receive top-secret traffic from the National Security Agency, diplomatic reports from embassies overseas, information from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as data from CIA men around the world. In Helms's office, there are "secure" red, grey, blue or white direct-line phones with scramblers attached-on which the President often calls...
...vote underscored the importance of a stable Japan in the future of Asia, and pointed a path of sanity and soundness that runs in calm contrast to the instability that has characterized the 18 years of Communist China's post-revolutionary history. After all, it is a scant quarter-century since Japan itself went wild and sent its aggression spilling across the Pacific from Singapore to Pearl Harbor. That adventure cost Japan 1½ million lives and taught a proud nation the humbling lesson of pragmatism...
...added sulforme-thoxine in an "SPQ" combination. Then they dropped the quinine and dosed malarial G.I.s with a combination of the new sulfa and pyrimethamine. Result: The new drug not only cures patients faster and kills parasites in the blood, but reduces the relapse percentage from 40% to a scant...
...currency in general, and touched off a worldwide wave of speculation in gold. The resulting gold scarcity has left the free world's official monetary reserves-for the most part bullion and dollars-annoyingly tight. Last week the International Monetary Fund reported that worldwide reserves increased by a scant $460 million during the first nine months...
...scant ten seconds later, Don Grimble carried goalward and passed across the crease to Murphy, who stuffed the puck for a 5-2 lead...