Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate, it cannot hope to carry the South unless its nominee is sufficiently conservative to neutralize Wallace's appeal. Former Vice President Richard Nixon has a considerable Southern following, but Ronald Reagan is probably the only Republican capable of consolidating his party's arduous-and still tenuous-risorgimento in Dixie...
Ever since the elections in February, when the Congress Party lost 96 seats in the Lower House of Parliament, the opposition has been maneuvering to overcome the government's tenuous 17 vote majority. It has relentlessly picked at Indira, accused her of using official gifts from visiting heads of state for her own enjoyment and of heartlessly denying permission to Svetlana Stalina to stay in India. If it can show strength in the contest for the presidency, which will be decided by an electoral college of state and national legislators on May 6, the opposition might lure more Congress...
...federal dollars for social projects will be shut off completely. Certainly, on the one hand, these conditions will open up new fronts for organizing but as we have noted above, the government will be unable to tolerate any dissent, as its grip on a domestic consensus becomes even more tenuous...
...course, apolitical. But the Herter opinion, which if followed could end Volpe's tenure, is quite strong and quite recent. The Court might be swayed by the fact that the Governor hasn't taken the federal oath, but some of Volpe's advisors feel his case is too tenuous to go before the court...
...most active and lethal parts of the human anatomy, the wagging tongue. In Richard Sheridan's high comedy, a hive of busybodies is 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...