Word: flimsier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Harry Truman nor anybody else could give firm guarantees on South Korea, or any other area in Eastern Asia. The anti-Communist position was flimsier than the grass roof of a Korean house; the best that could be argued was that ECAid might keep off the Red rain until stronger protection was built...
...Tokyo, where the main administrative and business section had been rebuilt in reinforced concrete after the 1923 earthquake, the B-29 firebirds' commanders selected a 10-sq.-mi. area of flimsier construction, east of the Imperial Palace. In Nagoya-which had suffered little from earthquakes, and so had not been modernized-it was a 5-sq.-mi. area in the heart of the city...
...lined up the Bishops, who in their oaths promise to line up the lesser clergy, he has cleared the way for lining up the people. On the surface the idea looks politically solid. But poverty, hunger and thousands of Loyalists rotting in Franco's prisons may prove it flimsier than it appears, may also be a strain on Bishops' oaths...
...from teaching at the College of the City of New York demonstrated quite succinctly the ever-present threats to the cause of freedom in any public institution. From Manhattan the spotlight turned to Cambridge. Would the Corporation disallow the Russell appointment on the grounds of his immoral beliefs, no flimsier excuse than that used to prevent Browder from speaking? Or, if not that, would Dorgan and the Massachusetts courts prevail? The answer came only with Lord Russell's arrival yesterday. Harvard stands justified again in the eyes of her peers and her children...