Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept in the Mothers and Babies' Home attached to the hospital so that she could have continuous medical care, frequent lab tests, and the ever-necessary transfusions. As she grew up, Helen helped with the younger children, worked in the office, developed a cheery personality that belied her tenuous hold on life. Every two months (in recent years) she has received four pints of blood, a half-pint on alternate days to cut down the severity of her chills-and-fever reaction to transfusions. She has responded surprisingly well to the transfusion routine. "It still hurts...
...upon row, people leaned forward to catch every word, feverishly scribbling in their notebooks. The mesmerizing drone of the theologian lifted them, trance-like, beyond the everyday world of corporeal men and concrete things. It carried them high, high into the tenuous stratosphere of abstraction, where the earth below could be glimpsed only briefly and dimly, as the ponderous metaphysical clouds parted for a moment, then coalesced in still thicker obscurity. Through the shadowy haze, however, they could sense the mammoth struggles that the voice affirmed were raging all around them. From far off they could sometimes catch the sound...
Princeton police chief John H. Smith appeared quite upset over the beating this morning and eager to take strong action. He felt, however, that Shelvey's tenuous identification "isn't definite enough for us to go out and arrest those guys right away. We certainly want to question them, but whether we'll do t before or after the game I just don't know. We'll have them in here as soon as we feel justified in doing...
...woodcut, rarely a delicate medium, is one challenging to subtlety; Barlach capitalizes upon its bold, vigorous hardness, converting a linear element to sculptural, determined shape, substituting candid and forceful areas for greater refinement of expression. In dealing directly with problems of drawing, via lithography, Barlach's result becomes highly tenuous, unsure, and often completely confused. The same attempt at vitality employed to convey vignettes brutal in subject falters and emerges much weaker in its substitution of the crayon for the chisel or cutter. Faced with a flexibility and opportunity for nuance far greater than that offered in the woodcut process...
...Tenuous Transition. More than a quarter of a century ago, Eloïse Roach fell in love with Poet Jiménez' best-loved book, Platero and I, determined to translate it. Many experts in Spanish literature (including Jiménez himself and his late wife), thought that the book's 138 prose poems were too delicate to make the transition to English. But in 1935 Teacher Roach traveled to Madrid and begged the shy, ailing Jiménez to look at the beginning she had made. Sitting on a couch together, the poet and his wife began...