Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Operation Mallet, hammering at a tunnel-and-village complex a scant 15 miles southeast of Saigon. The Thors: some 2,000 men with tanks and artillery of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division...
...More intensively? Initially, at least, the Administration plans to follow roughly the same bombing tactics as before. Nonetheless, commanders in the field are virtually unanimous in urging a more intensified, selective pattern. None suggest bombing the Hanoi-Haiphong population centers. But they point out that the U.S. has a scant 300 planes to plaster a 7,310-sq.-mi. area, whereas the Air Force in World War II used 1,700 planes to bomb a 2,900-sq.-mi. area of north and central Italy. Even making allowances for the greater speed of the modern jet, there remains a large...
...When the votes were counted, Labor's McNamara had walked away with an amazing 5,351-vote plurality. Toby and Tory drew a scant 40.8% of the ballots, and Britnik Gott proved a rebel without a cause: he pulled only 253 votes, and had to forfeit his ?150 campaign deposit. Declared the Manchester Guardian: "The voters of Hull have given Mr. Wilson the clearest message of support he has had since the general election...
Flight of the Middle Class. Field Enterprises is moving into the suburbs at the right time, for suburban dailies have never been more prosperous. While the circulation of metropolitan dailies rose a scant 1.9% from 1945 to 1962, the circulation of suburban dailies jumped 80.5%. The combined circulation of New York City's six competing dailies declined in the past decade, while out on Long Island, the nation's biggest suburban daily, Newsday,* almost doubled its circulation from...
...supplies during winter cold spells, power failures. This week Parliament reconvenes, and the minor grievances at home will provide the Tories with fresh ammunition. This week, too, voters in Hull go to the polls in a by-election for a seat won by Labor the last time by a scant 1,000-odd votes. The Tories have a fair chance of snatching it away-and reducing Wilson's parliamentary hold to a perilous majority...