Word: scanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party chairman is the third-youngest member of the Senate, with a scant four years' seniority. Yet he is already admired by the Senate potentates as a man to watch. Personable, eloquent and diligent, he reads voraciously to make himself familiar with important pieces of legislation. He is also unabashedly ambitious. "I like to win," he says...
...Supreme Court. Money came from those who believed that Sobell had not received a fair trial. Among the doubters were Nobel Prizewinning chemists Harold C. Urey and Linus Pauling, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Britain's nonagenarian nonbeliever, Bertrand Russell. Sobell, however, betrays scant enthusiasm today for continued legal battling to clear his name. In any case, after the verdict of his 1951 trial and more than a dozen later appeals, it would doubtless prove a fruitless enterprise...
...Politics has any validity, it is that the politician needs continuing mass support, in election year and out. Johnson had earned his reputation and learned his trade in closet politics, in the one-party Texas of another era and the cloister of Capitol Hill. He had scant preparation for the larger, less orderly world of national politics...
...case, this amounted to a pathological detestation of the bodily functions intense enough to disable the Dean from physical expression of the love he felt for women. In Pope's case, it did not prevent him from trying to play the rake at large in London, though with scant success. Quennell notes that his sexual adventures were "of a mercenary and transient kind," and that his platonic pursuit of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the one real love of his life, ended unhappily...
...tartan track contributed to fast times in several of the running events. In the 600, Keith Colburn breezed from fourth to first in fifty yards to lead teammate John Gillis across the line in 1:12.0, a scant 1 1/2 seconds off the University record. Royce Shaw and Jon Enscoe uncorcked a 58-second final quarter to finish one-two in the mile with Shaw getting the nod in a photo finish. Both runners clocked impressive times of 4:11.2. Colburn, Gillis, Shaw, and Enscoe all doubled in the two-mile relay, coasting to a half-lap victory over North...