Word: scantness
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Geologists shrugged at all the stir. Nature would wipe out the falls anyway in a scant 12,000 years...
...upon them and no hysterical hopes; they had the peasant's love for the land, the schoolboy's patriotism, the self-righteousness of a very young nation. They were Sabras-nicknamed after the thorny, rather tasteless fruit of the cactus, grown on arid earth, tough, hard-living, scant...
This week, a scant majority of Congressmen remained in Washington. They were exhausted and waspish-from the heat and eight years of overwork.* When they or their successors return in January, they will get more pay for less work-but work of better quality...
...points and on the basis of this lead won term honors in inter-house athletics with a total score of 572 points, 112 points higher than Dunster House, in the runner-up position. In third place in the term standings was Winthrop House with 425 points, a scant 5 points more than Leverett in fourth place. Lowell was next with 327 points while Adams and Dudley brought up the rear with...
...came war and another child, but little change. Innocenzo, who had scant appetite for heroics, wangled a job as a medical orderly and his wife got a Government allotment...