Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth leads the country in rushing defense, having held its first two opponents, New Hampshire and Holy Cross, to minus five yards. The Indians are also first in total defense; having permitted a scant 117 yards per game...
...drawback of this approach comes when you have a legitimate sure thing--and such is the case today. Colgate's football team is favored over Yale by a scant six points; the Red Raiders will win by at least three touchdowns. I don't know who quotes the official football point eating cans of pork and beans for the next month because of this staggering ignorance...
Wary Legislators. As an interim reform, the Scranton administration last week pressed state legislators to raise magistrates' salaries, require new ones to be lawyers, cut the present number to 18, and drastically alter the case-assignment system to prevent collusion. Even that modest package is given scant chance of passage. As a troubled Scranton aide points out: "These men are probably the most powerful politicians in the state. They do favors for people every day, and state legislators are scared to death of them...
...decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler schools, both burst on the cultural scene in 1959 to become symbols of Germany's postwar conscience. Both, too, have been remarkably productive, Grass with nine published works, Antes with an astonishing 14 one-man shows in a scant three years...
...normally fills more than half of the Midwestern hunter's bag. Mallard breeding is at an alltime low; this year alone, hatchings fell 25% in the U.S., 35% in Canada. Now, as migration to winter grounds in the Gulf states begins in earnest, the experts estimate that a scant 13 million mallards will start down U.S. flyways-only 6.5 for each of the country's 2,000,000 duck hunters...