Word: scanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neediest who are helped least by the welfare state. The majority of the poor reap no benefits from social security, unemployment insurance, or the right to unionize. Farm subsidies mostly enrich the prosperous; the poorest farmers, with 40% of the working spreads in the U.S., account for a scant 7% of farm income...
...hearings opened under Supreme Court Justice Wishart Flett Spence, 62. They would try to determine whether there had been a national security leak in the friendship of 36-year-old German Party Girl Gerda Munsinger with ministers of the former Conservative government. So far, the evidence was about as scant as the party-girl costumes Gerda had donned for cheesecake photos in Munich...
...oles sounded all the sweeter in view of Washington's assumption that U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic had tarnished Johnson's image south of the border, that he could never hope to gain the affection and instinctive trust that Latin Americans awarded President Kennedy. With scant advance notice, Johnson drew crowds only slightly smaller than those Kennedy received on a long-planned visit in 1962. "Who said we couldn't go to Latin America?" demanded Johnson. "Who said the Dominican Republic disgraced...
...Jobs in Scant Supply. Tom Murphy's New York Newspaper Guildsmen, who stand to lose the most jobs, will have the hardest time finding new work because editorial jobs are in scant supply around New York. But firings are imminent once a solution is found to knotty problems of jurisdiction and seniority. In anticipation of the merger, Murphy held up negotiations for new contracts, even though the old ones ran out last spring. The craft unions, all of which have contracts with the merging papers, claim that they are under no obligation to the new ones...
...sides for bib tops. Since the bare spots change from dress to dress, the bras are flexible, come with convertible straps that crisscross every which way for one-shoulder, no-shoulder, U, V or X decolletes. Panties have shrunk to bikini briefs; petticoats begin at the hip, are a scant 16 in. from top to hem (previous length...