Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most prognosticators felt the battle would be between Eliot and Kirkland, each of which won the preliminary heats last week. But it was not to be, as Mather took three quarters of a length by the 500-meter mark and then held on, covering the 1500 meters a scant one second ahead of Eliot...
...fears that sooner or later the army may move to seize power. "There is nothing to prevent them if they have a mind to do so," Seni told McWhirter last week. "They, after all, have the guns." Seni knows this all too well -he was Prime Minister for a scant four months in 1946 before being ousted by a military coup...
...only real excitement of the day came in the freshman race, where coach Gregg Stone's charges edged out the Lion's eight by a scant four tenths of a second...
Station To Station could certainly have been composed in a month (much of it resembled "Fame," the hit single off Young American that took Bowie and John Lennon a scant 45 minutes to concoct) by a man suffering from terminal ennui, but I'm not complaining, well, not much anyway. The album is a testament to the efficiency of the Bowie machine. Stripped as he is here of many cherished pretentions (adrogynous messiah, apocalyptic visionary, etc.) and locked into a disco beat, Bowie can still captivate us. It's a creditable and also slightly curious accomplishment...
...Rostropovich, Ma played the first movement of Antonin Dvorak's cello concerto. The composition is a staple in the relatively scant cello repertoire, and as such is probably as familiar to Rostropovich as the Lord's Prayer is to the Pope. Rostropovich, naturally, has thought a great deal about the work, and his suggestions to Ma about performing it, reflected the more than 20 years he has been performing the concerto...