Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle Way." Whoever succeeds Shastri inherits a nation that is the better for his leadership. He had a scant 19 months to cope with India's thorny problems; yet his patient, pragmatic approach helped to heal regional tensions and promote a more realistic sense of the nation's direction. When food riots broke out in 1964, Shastri wisely de-emphasized Nehru's overambitious industrialization schemes and gave top priority to increasing farm output. He halted the bloody language riots in the south by indefinitely shelving the law establishing Hindi as the sole official tongue. "We must seek...
...curl right in the middle of her forehead: when it is good, it is very good, and when it's bad, it certainly is horrid. Like the little girl, it is moody, often funny, sometimes serious, frequently and petulantly cute, and then again just plain naughty. Within a scant hour, it manages to touch on the following subjects: the American Ideal, larceny, age, prostitution, sypnilis, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency, homosexuality, et al. That kind of range would be difficult in any play--in The Great American Desert, it's insurmountable...
...nien was on hand to greet the Russian, dapper in a well-cut coat with Persian lamb collar and matching cap. The Chinese had prepared lunch, but the Russians had fore-handedly eaten on the plane, so generalities were exchanged about the weather, and the Ilyushin winged aloft a scant 50 minutes after landing...
...football's prosperous National Football League, skeptics gave the rookie league the actuarial chances of Weeping Wa ter State Teachers facing the Chicago Bears. The A.F.L.'s players were mostly second-rate collegians, or castoffs from Canada and the N.F.L. - and the sandlot football they played bore scant resemblance to the tightly disciplined N.F.L. brand. That first ' season, one team scored four touchdowns in 20 min. to salvage a 38-38 tie; another opened up a 30-0 half-time lead, still had to kick a last-second field goal...
...from a time when American communities were isolated; in mobile America, the system is clearly outdated. An estimated 8,000,000 Americans were unable to vote in 1960 because of state residency requirements; they could have made a crucial difference in that election, which John Kennedy won by a scant 113,000 votes...