Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Spencer's verdict on the merit of "The Trojan Horse" is undoubtedly correct, but his right to call a halt to an H.D.C. production on literary grounds is certainly tenuous at best. The function of an adviser as far as censorship is concerned is to pass on pornography. If the amateur actors wish to continue on their road to hamdom, it is their privilege...
...circumference of a broken coral ring, a detachment of white-clad U.S. sailors last week went through a time-honored ceremony. The bugles blared "To the Colors," the flag was run up, the watch posted. The Navy's new station on the Midway Islands, first pier in the tenuous 5,860-mile water bridge between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, was in com mission...
From then on, Jacob Djugashvili, son. of Joseph Stalin, was nobody. No one in the foreign embassies in Moscow ever met him; all they heard was tenuous gossip: Jacob secretly running off with a poor seamstress . . . Jacob working in a factory to boost morale . . . Jacob not doing; very well at the Commissariat for Heavy Industry. Finally he disappeared into the Army...
...this was grim news for France, there was one glimmer of hope in it. The more Vichy succumbs to Germany, the more tenuous becomes its hold on the man charged with holding its empire together: General Maxime Weygand. Ever since October 1940, when he quit France for the North African command, wiry Septuagenarian Weygand has kept observers guessing. Repeatedly he has been accused of coolness to Vichy, repeatedly he has sounded off in ringing statements of loyalty. Three times the Germans have tried to force his removal from command of the most potent remnant of the once mighty armies...
...ports. I might say slightly below 40 per cent. He based his information "according to our composite records, which we believe to be complete." Now what happens to the convoy excuse of those who are willing to hang on to and exploit any rumor, no matter how vague and tenuous, in order to lead the people of the United States until they are checkmated into active belligerency? Jordan Whitelaw...