Word: flimsiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With only the flimsiest pretense of democratic procedure, the Communists set up a "people's government" of Berlin. They repudiated the anti-Communist City Assembly, legally elected two years ago, and claimed authority over the whole city, although well aware that they would exercise it in the Soviet sector alone...
...Ponape from the Japanese, it fell heir to an unsolved mystery. On a reef off the east coast of the dot-on-the-map island are a great stone fortress and 50 artificial islets. Ponape natives call it Nanmatol, but they shun it superstitiously and have only the flimsiest traditions to explain why people built...
...American industrial heart is inimitable to American security. Soviet apologists will have difficulty finding justification in American demands anywhere. But the full measure of the gravity of this claim lies in the frame of mind that gives the Soviets license to crease treaty obligations at will, or under the flimsiest moral case since the phony Polish invasion of Germany in 1939. Under the Russian logic, the Treaty of Montreux and other of the accords reached following the last war, would be scratched from the books. And the fate of the Dardanelles and the Dodecanese Islands would be transferred from...
...Small Town he talks about a place called Roxborough ("I have employed only the flimsiest of disguises"). Like a surgeon-sociologist, Author Hicks takes Roxborough apart, examining its community workings and its problems. He reviews its history (dull), its people (average), its public spirit (strictly limited), its politics (strictly Republican...
...Dies Committee has proved itself a willing sounding board for what Max Lerner has called "kiss and tell" disgruntled fascists and communists of perjured word and shady background. It has seized at every opportunity to hit the headlines with some, new "expose," often upon the basis of the flimsiest kind of evidence. Distinguished educators, outstanding liberals and practically every New Dealer in Washington have been subjected to entirely unjustified attacks. More humorous, but equally indicative, was the classic query made during an investigation of the authors of plays produced by the Federal Theatre: "Who is this Communist, Christopher Marlowe...