Word: scanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor. Airport men accuse the airlines of being too secretive about equipment plans. It was only 18 months ago, says E. Thomas Burnard, executive vice president of the Airport Operators Council International, that the airlines told airports they would be buying jumbo jets. This gave the cities only a scant 36 months to carry out necessary improvements to handle such planes. "It's the same story as in the 1950s, when we pleaded with the manufacturers and airlines for the specifications of the jets they had in mind. We got no useful information until a few months before they...
...well. The store promises to create 50 new jobs, outdo local chain stores in offering such "ethnic appeal" items as chitlins and hog maws. Far more important in an area whose residents insist that they are being gouged by white storeowners, the supermarket's prices will reflect the scant buying power of its customers...
...Thus, in scant outline, my initiation. Dazed, swept through with wonder, I walked down the stairs and outside. In waning February sunlight, with a fierce wind blowing, I shook my head and looked down at my hand. I had been left with a wet handkerchief, one crumpled flower, and a repast--one of my two oranges...
...Suburbs Black poverty is most evident in the crumbling cores of Northern and Western cities. Walter Pollard, 64, came up from Winston-Salem, N.C., to Harlem in search of a "good job." Today he lives just over the poverty line?$150 a month as a janitor keeps him a scant penny above the $1,710 poverty line for a single man in an urban area. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and lean in his baggy denim trousers, woolen work jacket and purple longshoreman's cap, he used to support a wife and five children. He and his wife were divorced...
...then, he has returned repeatedly, both as a knockabout traveler and a rich tourist. In his book he makes no effort to prettify the country's problems or ignore its faults. As long as Spain remains ruled by the army, the landed families and the church, he sees scant hope of any dramatic social or industrial progress-although he does grant that there have been genuine advances in recent years. He is acerbic about the humiliating political strictures imposed by the Franco government, deplores the abrasive, remorseless poverty that makes even the dogs in the provinces scrawny and unlovable...