Word: flimsier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stability of some of his peers is based on flimsier stuff. Gambia, which gained its freedom only last year, is too new and too tiny to give Prime Minister David Kairaba Jawara immediate cause for concern. French troops keep Gabon's President Léon Mba propped up in return for rights to his nation's uranium deposits. In Malawi, Prime Minister Hastings Banda is a demagogue who has banned everything except starvation, remains arrogant only because his army numbers only 800 men and is still commanded by British officers who are happy with the status...
...conclusion would still be false. The Council no more represents undergraduates than does the CRIMSON, the Harvard Dramatic Club, or the Dean of Students. If it did--and one can scarcely conceive any body that could--then the weak justification for the administration's actions would be still flimsier: a truly representative body would have the strongest right of any student organization to hear whomever it pleases. And that a Council-sponsored concert would be taken elsewhere to imply University approval of Seeger should influence no one: Harvard's responsibility is to itself, not to public opinion...
Medicine for 400,000. Seagrave's main hospital building is a substantial stone structure which he helped build with his bare hands to show native laborers that Americans do not consider manual work demeaning. The other buildings are of flimsier native construction. Thanks mainly to a U.S. support group, American Medical Center for Burma, Inc., which raises funds, and to drug manufacturers who donate supplies, Dr. Seagrave is able to practice and supervise good medical care for a population of border tribesmen totaling some 400,000. He fills 250 beds and 50 mats with about 2,500 admissions...