Word: shakier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syria, after more than six months of Nasser's rule by remote control, found its economy shakier than before. To quiet dissatisfied Syrian businessmen. Nasser allowed Syria a separate budget, vetoed some of his planners' grandiose schemes and ordered a cut in armaments. Unhappy Syrian officers reportedly flung their caps on the table, the traditional gesture of threatening to resign from the army if they do not have their way. More agreeable to Nasser was his three-day meeting with Crown Prince Feisal, Premier of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, who announced that "clouds between the two countries have...
...Plainly, the distinction between the mentally sick on the one hand and the sinful (or the miserable and the muddled) on the other, is getting shakier and shakier ... Hence the dilemma: either our psychiatrist must be spending his time upon those who are not really ill at all ... or our conception of mental illness must be much too narrow, and needs to be widened to include pretty well everybody who is in trouble of any kind...
...that he was raising no question of Jessup's loyalty or his affiliations; he was simply questioning Jessup's past record of judgment. One observer quickly concluded that Stassen was "the rich man's McCarthy," presumably because McCarthy had also attacked Jessup -on different and far shakier grounds...