Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, Lyndon Johnson has already had to abandon his cherished, if unrealistic, goal of keeping the U.S. budget below $100 billion. He did so by a scant $300 million when he originally submitted his budget for the current year, thereby projecting a politically valuable image of fiscal responsibility...
...Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish Boss Leander Perez urged whites to offset Negro voting gains by "rushing to the registrar's office." His plea had scant effect. In New Orleans, where there are 122,000 unregistered whites, the local registrar one day last week enrolled 386 Negroes−and 14 whites...
Departing a scant 21 hours earlier was Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who might have been expected to wait around and say hello to the new U.S. ambassador−or at least nod in passing. No one was surprised at his absence, however, for Ky has long been sensitive to the growing U.S. presence in his country, loses no opportunity to vehemently affirm his independence. Lodge's arrival happened at a convenient time for Ky to take off on the second leg of an image-building trip to Formosa and Thailand...
Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore: "We now find ourselves involved in a war that defies analysis in traditional military terms, in a war that makes little sense as it is being waged, in a war that we have scant hope of winning except at a cost which far outweighs the fruits of victory, in a war suitable to the enemy, in a place and under conditions that no military man in his right mind would choose, in a war which threatens to escalate into a major power confrontation and which could esca late into a nuclear holocaust. I am sure...
Line of Teachers. An indefatigable crusader for the enrichment of the scant cello repertory, Rostropovich has induced several other composers to create for the cello. Prokofiev and Shostakovich both wrote works for him. Born in Baku, Russia, Rostropovich was virtually weaned on cello music; his grandfather and father, who studied under Casals, were noted teachers of the instrument. When the family moved to Moscow, Rostropovich joined his father's class at the Children's Music School, began teaching on his own at 15. At 19 he was appointed soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic, played in a trio with...