Word: flimsiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what is now South Viet Nam could not marry without their parents' consent, no matter what their age, or refuse a husband of their parents' choosing. They had to live with their in-laws, endure without protest their husbands' infidelities, could be turned out on the flimsiest charge of "disobedience" or reduced to the status of a servant to a new mistress in the house. But three years ago, when South Viet Nam became independent, the women found a champion. As sister-in-law and official hostess of Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem, dainty Madame Ngo Dinh...
...controversy bitter. And they have augmented its heat and scope by forcing into the area of partisan politics what should be a sober, nonpolitical issue of engineering and administrative procedure. In pursuance of this course they have put Chairman Strauss's integrity to the question on the flimsiest of pretexts. And they have encouraged their fellow Democrat, AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray, to engage in a vendetta with Strauss...
...would like to compare two stories that appeared in your Jan. 3 issue. One, the account of Wolf Ladejinsky, the U.S. agricultural attaché, fired as a security risk for the flimsiest of reasons. He was publicly condemned by the Agriculture Department in spite of having been previously cleared by the State Department. The other story was that of Irmgard Schmidt, the German girl who obtained secrets for the Russians by using her charms on U.S. Air Force intelligence officers. These intelligence officers are certainly security risks since they obviously are easy prey for a shapely girl. Who are they...
...They bind the United States, for instance, to all of Latin America, most of Europe, and a good part of Asia. In the next few days, study groups of professionals and dedicated amateurs will meet all over the country to pull land haw at the biggest, and also the flimsiest, of the documents--the Charter of the United Nations...
...What he has done is to take the flimsiest of evidence or no evidence at all," Bundy said, "and ignore whatever goes against his thesis." He added that, contrary to Buckley's charges, it is generally agreed that "Yale is more religious than the rest of Protestant American and more religious than it was a generation...