Word: scantiest
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...questions are vital, but the answers are hard to come by. Though the Communists are fully aware of the domestic pressures in the U.S. to settle the war, and try to manipulate American public opinion to their own advantage, the American negotiators have only the scantiest information about the mood of North Viet Nam or how that mood might affect the Communists' bargaining position. About all that U.S. policymakers can do is ponder the clues that slip out of Ho Chi Minh's secretive land by means of foreign visitors, an occasional defector, and the North...
Kicking the Tradition. Under the paternalistic rule of le Pere, as his countrymen call him, youngsters everywhere now flock to new secular schools that have replaced the dreary old Koranic institutions. Young Tunisian women wear mini-djebbas that are the scandal of the mullahs, and bikinis among the scantiest on the Mediterranean. But Bourguiba is kicking more than tradition into the North African dust...
Heroes are created by public demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials...
Though Taylor's troupe is one of the most successful in modern dance, it will not clear enough from its Manhattan performances to cover expenses. The lukewarm support for modern dance at home makes it impossible for it to afford anything but the scantiest scenery; the dancers even make their own costumes. To make ends meet, Taylor & Co. will depart this month on their twelfth tour abroad, where they draw six times as many people a year as they...
Nevertheless, the diplomacy-in-public that Johnson unleashed last week did not seem particularly well suited to the delicate manipulations necessary to setting up meaningful peace talks. Worse, with the scantiest justification it built high hopes throughout the world that peace in Viet Nam might really be imminent, when...