Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicken Warriors. Washington's chicken warriors hope that the Common Market will take action before they have to put their retaliatory tariffs into effect. There seems scant chance of this, since Common Market officials have not even scheduled a meeting before the Sept. 15 deadline set by the U.S. The irony is that the outburst of transatlantic recriminations has come just when U.S. and Common Market negotiators had begun to make some progress at working out new and sweeping tariff cuts among 50 nations, scheduled to be made at the next meeting of GATT...
...market. When a broker places an order for a customer, the wholesaler either draws the unlisted stock from his own portfolio (each wholesaler "makes markets" in several issues), or telephones around to others to dicker for a deal. Since there is no clearing house, no ticker tape and scant supervision, ample room exists for imaginative wheeling and dealing...
...never "an appendage, this green-eyed one," admitted Shaw. She dragged him, coldly protesting, on endless travels to far-off places, where he was invariably miserable. When they had been married a dozen years, G.B.S. had a rip-roaring affair-on paper, at least-with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, making scant attempt to hide his infatuation from Charlotte's "sensitive person." (For once, he spared his wife the embarrassment of handling his love letters...
Another reason why President Kennedy's welfare-state legislative proposals sometimes generate scant enthusiasm in Congress is that he himself often seems to have little genuine enthusiasm for them. He often conveys an impression that he is operating as a political technician, asking not what the measures can do for the country but what proposing them can do for him politically. Lacking, or seeming to lack, any real commitment to his welfare proposals, the President sometimes fails to give them sustained support. "He sends up one message after another," says a congressional Republican, "and then forgets about them...
...plane, we will all cheer in unison, hip, hip, hurrah." When Nikita stepped out of his plane, all smiles, the crowd was silent and only the honor guard of soldiers shouted, officially. In contrast to President Kennedy's welcome by more than a million West Berliners, a scant 250,000 East Berlin factory workers, secretaries and schoolchildren, marching in closed formations, turned out for Khrushchev. Along parts of the 16-mile route to the Red city hall, the only spectators were the Volkspolizei...