Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearts that the public begins to see the Oil-Scandal scareheads fading from the newspapers. Now that the air is beginning to clear, Senator La Follette and his iconoclastic apostles are likely to elicit little sympathy with their pointless attack on the new attorney-general. This diligent unearthing of tenuous "Wall Street connections" begins to cloy even the ravenous palates of Western farmers...
...first act of the new Chancellor was prophesied to be a demand for dictatorship. If the Reichstag pass the motion, and it seemingly depended on the Socialist attitude, then the Cabinet has a tenuous chance of holding power until next Summer when a general election is due. "If," as the Vorwaerts put it, "there is a conflict between the Reichstag and the Marx Cabinet, the Reichstag is certain of dissolution." This can only mean a premature general election at a most inauspicious time...
...Italian proposals. He is, however, in a different position from Signor Mussolini. The Italian Premier enjoys almost universal popularity in Italy, but the Yugo-Slavian Government is in a shaky position, owing chiefly to the hostility of the Croats. Thus the chances of an immediate settlement are considered somewhat tenuous...
...Germany's last word has by no means yet been spoken. What Chancellor Stresemann says in effective only as long as his government remains in office and at present it hold on the office appears, to say the least, some-what tenuous. The two powerful actions, the Nationalists and the Communists, are agreed on one point--that the present government is not to their taste. The Nationalists want a strong central government and one which will admit defeat to no one; the Communists want a government which will squeeze the wealthy industrials until they can get more industrial control...
...tenuous Socratic discussion between a former college President and himself...