Word: tenuously
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...turned to ashes on Saturday as the wrestling team blew an early, tenuous lead over Princeton and lost, 17-14, in the final match...
...most active and lethal parts of the human anatomy, the wagging tongue. In Richard Sheridan's high comedy, a hive of busybodies is gleefully exposed and undone. In Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, a nest of vipers invades the privacy of a family and destroys the tenuous balance of their lives. The APA again...
...time when Red China is mired in economic troubles along with its seemingly endless series of purges, he and his lieutenants are quietly building Asia's strongest government, its second strongest economy (after Japan) and, despite 17 years of exile, an esprit that somehow continues to embody the tenuous dream of mainland recovery. To improve the government, Chiang recently called for "new policies" and "modernized governmental mechanisms." In an obvious dig at Peking's harangues about "revisionism," he is also pushing a "revision" of the Kuomintang, Taiwan's ruling body and one of Asia's oldest...
Baum's grip was tenuous at best; occasionally his hand fluttered off Maxham's leg as Maxham kept driving him around and around. But the hand never really lost it and earned a 1-1 tie that had the crowd in M.I.T.'s duPont gym on its feet...
...agitators, in "one of the most unusual town-gown antagonisms in history," had made the campus a target for protest. He drew a burst of applause when he said, "There are hundreds of faculty members and thousands of students who are heartily sick of the unrest, turbulence and the tenuous control we have over our community and who yearn for the stability essential for a climate of productive learning." Vowing that he would enforce all campus rules "as long as I am in this position," Heyns-in a clear reference to the rising ire of the university regents over Berkeley...