Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scant period of just 17 days, two self-pitying women had called dramatic attention to themselves and their unhinged values by pointing pistols at President Gerald Ford. The events took place a mere 80 miles apart in California; in the interim Patty Hearst was also found there, and the Hearsts turned out to have been a part of the second assailant's recent life. It seemed slightly surreal, an overlap of sensations in too narrow a space and time...
...then, price controls on domestically produced oil will expire and petroleum prices will shoot up faster than either side wants. Actually, the effective deadline was Aug. 1, since Congress regularly adjourns then for one month or more. Yet it was not until the end of last week, with a scant five days left for legislative action, that the outlines of a bill with a real chance of becoming law finally emerged...
...scant six feet of space separated Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko from tragedy. The first members of the royal family to visit Okinawa in 54 years, Akihito and Michiko had stopped to place a wreath at a World War II memorial when a helmeted attacker tossed a Molotov cocktail that landed two yards from their feet. Miraculously unhurt, the couple retreated to their car while police arrested two radical students for the firebombing. Okinawa was the scene of 187,000 Japanese deaths during World War II, and last week's attack served as a grim reminder...
...filled with adoring sisters, gothic novels and the promise of an inherited baronetcy, Shelley was thrust into a Dickensian boarding school. At Eton, his refusal to kowtow to senior students earned him the nickname "Mad Shelley." There followed University College, Oxford, which gratefully expelled young Percy Bysshe, after a scant six months, for writing a broadside on atheism...
...first tee is filled with foursomes; on the practice green, more players stand poised over putts. The game may be golf, but it bears scant resemblance to the pastime of the country-club set. The scene is Detroit's Palmer Park Municipal Golf Course, and among its players are some of the city's best-and best-known-black golfers. The aim is action, bankrolls are at the ready, and the style is straight soul. Indeed, to play Palmer Park is to take a lesson in lively ethnic semantics...