Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among modern artists. He lives like a loner-staying barely long enough in any one London flat to litter it and leave. Last week, having just ended a four-month toot, Bacon was back at his easel in a South Kensington mews flat that has been home for a scant fortnight. At the same time, 65 of his oils went on exhibit in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. It was the largest one-man show in the U.S. for a living British painter within the century...
Poking through the scant ruins, Public Works Minister Fiorentino Sullo mourned: "A truly Biblical disaster, like Pompeii." As the dead were stacked in a mass grave, angry Italians demanded an investigation. Before Vaiont Dam was built four years ago, local residents tried to get the hydroelectric project halted on grounds that the surrounding mountains were too avalanche prone. Mount Toe threw down such landslides so regularly that its nickname was "The Walking Mountain." But the government approved the reservoir anyway...
...Aberdeen, the excitement at St. Luke's Hospital was almost as great as in Venezuela, when Mrs. Andrew Fischer delivered her four girls and a boy. The 30-year-old wife of a $76-a-week grocery shipping clerk, Mrs. Fischer had learned from an X ray a scant three days in advance that quints were on the way. Then when her time came, there were complications. Four of the five infants were breech deliveries; the other emerged head first. Also six-to eight-weeks premature, Mrs. Fischer's brood arrived in 90 minutes, weighed an estimated...
...their flesh contained an unusual amount of caesium 137. After that, the story unfolded with dangerous logic. The caribou's winter food is largely lichens, a primitive plant that has no roots but gets its moisture and nutrients entirely from the air. Its spongy tissues soak up the scant Arctic rain like blotting paper and retain a large part of it. The fallout that is carried down by the rain is retained too. Instead of mixing harmlessly with the soil, it goes into the stomachs of caribou and becomes part of their bones and flesh. When Eskimos...
...accept gifts of antiques. Mrs. Herbert Hoover recovered some pieces of furniture that had been in the White House in Monroe's time, had replicas made of furniture in Monroe's law office in Fredericksburg. But when the Kennedys moved in, the White House contained only a scant sprinkling of important art or authentic antiques. Most of the cabinetry dated from the 20th century. While the walls were cluttered with plenty of portraits, many of them were inferior copies of the originals. There were no landscapes at all, no still lifes, few historical scenes...