Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friendship and cooperation presently existing among them. Private U.S. investment capital in Europe and the Americas alone would preclude any "dismissal" of these areas as secondary to the core interests of the U.S. Even if the U.S. were to "write off" these areas as soft regions, there would be scant likelihood of their developing Communist political systems, at least of the Moscow-Peking variety. Present tendencies in Europe and the Americas are toward a more nationalistic brand of Communism and socialism...
With a total of $483,000 paid for 40 works in a scant hour, Peregrine Pollen, representative of Parke-Bernet's new owner, Sotheby's of London, saw nothing but blue sky ahead for U.S. modern art. "Breaking records doesn't mean too awfully much, does it?" said Pollen. "Look at the mile. It's broken every...
...first postwar decade, Joseph Stalin's meddling in the Middle East was largely limited to Russia's immediate neighbors, Turkey and Iran-where he had scant success. But the ubiquitous Khrushchev boldly leapfrogged smack into the area, sending legions of comrade plenipotentiaries armed with aid, or ready to aid with arms. Today, from the great shell of the Aswan High Dam rising from the Egyptian Nile to T-54 tanks rumbling down the boulevards of Baghdad, with swarms of MIG jets on patrol over Syria or strafing Royalist rebels in Yemen, the Soviet presence in the Middle East...
Laboratory Match. Measured by the 180-million-mile voyage of the space craft Mariner II that took it within a scant 21,000 miles of Venus (TIME, Jan. 4, 1963), the telescope's short as cent seems puny indeed, and it cost the sponsoring Air Force an insignificant $100,000. But the data it collected before it parachuted back to Earth promises to stir up a lively astronomical argument. Mariner confirmed earlier radiotelescope observations and reported that the Venusian surface is far too hot and dry to support any Earth-type life. The flying telescope got a vastly different...
...intellectually promiscuous Asian world, the crystalline unity of Buddha's thought had scant chance of escaping the taint of temporal power...