Word: teeter
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...toward the center of the see-saw. His opponent would then be obliged to respond in kind to preserve equilibrium. Progressive movement toward the center, says Osgood, would lesson the tension on the board and minimize the effect of a single wrong step. And so it would. Osgood's teeter-totter tale is sound physics. It is not very good practical politics...
Among the tiny handful of men who teeter perilously at the top of the Soviet ladder, none has shown such a talent for survival as swarthy, saturnine First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 64. But last week Western foreign offices and intelligence agencies hummed with speculation that Mikoyan had at last lost his footing...
...many tourists sought the sun at Miami Beach. But despite the biggest crowds in history-2,500,000 strong, 10% more than last year-Miami Beach hotelmen were deeply troubled last week as the winter season ended. More than 25 hotels, many of them high, white and handsome, teeter on the brink of financial collapse; four hotels in the last six months, including the Saxony and Cadillac, already are reorganizing under the bankruptcy act. Other hotelkeepers are trying to scrape together enough money to pay the taxes that they fell behind on during the frigid winter season...
...executives often rise with giddy speed to their high perches, teeter briefly, then disappear with the first rough wind, it is perhaps because they have little administrative and command background for the big job. And so some hang on, but many fall...
...Gaulle had other sops to throw-a third star for Brigadier General Jacques Massu, the balcony hero of the paratroopers, and France's highest military award, the Médaille Militaire, for teeter-tottering General Raoul Salan, who last week abandoned his flirtation with the ultras long enough to pledge that his army would "give to General de Gaulle the magnificent performance he has asked of us." De Gaulle also invited Salan and Massu to share the Bastille Day platform with him in Paris this week...