Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must mobilize all our resources for the strengthening of our democratic system and for powerful de fense against the bloodthirsty brutalitarians. . . . Equally important and equally indispensable is an immediate program for the economic rehabilitation of our twelve million unemployed whose morale is shattered and whose allegiance to democracy is tenuous because the hungry and the hopeless fail to see what they are called upon to defend. . . . We rabbis must do more than echo the despair and perplexities of our people. We must bring to them a message of hope, rekindle their faith, inspire them with fortitude and courage...
...Congress' anxiety to forget about the destruction of democracy in Europe, one tenuous connection was allowed to continue. At sea was the Red Cross "mercy ship" McKeesport, which had started out for Bordeaux, heading straight into a combat zone without the necessary guarantee of safe conduct from belligerents. Before Congress was an Administration proposal to exempt Red Cross vessels from the Neutrality Act; otherwise the McKeesport might have to be ordered back. Cried West Virginia's lame-duck Senator Rush Holt: "This resolution of authority might be the spark. ..." Nevertheless, the resolution passed...
Responsible for the delicacy of its silvery, 377-ft. towers is their covering of stainless steel plates (which also lessens maintenance cost). With piers and even riveting merged into its tenuous design, its bridge mass has been refined almost to a point where it looks unsafe...
...Sargent '96, original educational counselor and publisher of an annual school and college handbook, has categorically stated that American universities--Harvard in particular--forced us in to the first World War and are now doing their best to enroll us in the current edition. His conclusion rests on a tenuous thread of logic running from pro-Allied speeches by university presidents through the control of their educational institutions by the business community to the latter's economic stake in an Allied victory. Essentially, his argument is that the United States went to war in 1917 and will go again...
Last week something as tenuous and perhaps as fleeting as the shadow of a bomber's wing spread over Capitol Hill in Washington. It was an uneasy feeling that all is not well with the U. S. Army and Navy. Congress has made no serious bones about letting the Army and Navy have upwards of $3,500,000,000 in this and the next fiscal year. But the new question was: How good a job are the President, the generals and the admirals doing with the money? By week's end the U. S. press, many...