Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 saw the latest and most critical mission of his turbulent legal and academic career aborted yesterday after a scant five months in operation...
...more gasoline they make, the more they have to scant on heating oil, and vice versa. And even after 1975, the enormous increase projected in per capita demand for oil will leave the nation increasingly dependent on costly imports. Thus Americans, who have long taken cheap energy for granted, will have to pay more for air conditioning, heat, lighting and auto fuel, while using less...
...result was phenomenal, if not utterly unbelievable. Over the course of the Spring schedule, Radcliffe lost only one race, by a scant one-second margin to Princeton, during the early part of the season. But from there on, the 'Cliffe amassed an incredible succession of victories. The varsity eight even vindicated the sole setback of the season, humbling Princeton by a substantial margin in taking the Eastern Women's Sprint title...
...Scant Result. If that happens, Cambodia will have little to show for the hardships it suffered after the U.S. extended the war into the once placid Cambodian countryside...
...about May 1," he says, "I knew I was never going to make a May 15 deadline. I got page proofs on May 9, and I had to start tearing them up and rewriting." The last words were added on the evening of June 8-a scant two months before publication. Even if the scandal had come fully to light before the election-and Nixon had reacted to it by ordering a thorough housecleaning of his Administration-White maintains that the President's popular majority would not have fallen below 55%. Perhaps so, but the reader wonders whether White...