Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to Thursday's stormy session, last night's meeting of the Cambridge City Council was relatively subdued, with the divisive City Manager issue receiving scant attention...
...trial. The financial resources for the legal battle have been virtually exhausted by this dilatory litigation, and the facts have still not been brought to trial. The fund established by the National Council of Churches to aid in securing justice in the Kent State cases has received only scant contributions...
...killed it. Some 30,000 youths in regimental beads and headbands set out for Puerto Rico during Easter Holy Week for a bash thrown by the tireless festival promoter, Atlanta's Alex Cooley. For their $149 they got hopelessly inadequate transportation, a generally tepid show, exorbitant concession prices, scant drinking water, little emergency medical care, poor sanitary conditions and the tragedy of four deaths, one of them violent...
...banks of the Cua Viet River, one vital North Vietnamese objective was spiked by the tanks of the tough 20th Armored Squadron. As the Communist spearhead rolled south on Highway 1, the 34-ton M-48s of the 20th sped north. They met-and stopped-the Communist armor a scant 300 yards north of the Cua Viet bridge. The tankers and two companies of South Vietnamese marines held the bridge long enough for it to be blown up by an American adviser. "Those outfits are heroes," said one American who observed the battle. "There hasn't been anyone...
...this year, the U.S. economy sailed into the second quarter under a rainbow of brightening statistics-and several ominous clouds. Chances for a rapid return to full, noninflationary prosperity remain remote. And the potential for trouble ahead, notably in the critical areas of jobs and prices, gives Richard Nixon scant room for comfort in an election year. Yet there is compelling evidence that the economy is making sturdy progress toward recovery, and is likely to gain speed in the months ahead. Says Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The news that the economy is moving...