Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jude you'll do! both combine to make of the song a perfect vehicle for expressing, unexpectedly and delightfully, that tremulous and tenuous relationship that one has with a girl in the early encounters. "Hey Jude" is of the genre Romantic Ballad, but with characteristic genius the Beatles have transformed and revitalized the concept...
...Tenuous order came with dawn, and Stokes, on the advice of black leaders, devised a bold gamble to pacify the troubled area the next night. All white law-enforcement officers, including the National Guardsmen, were withdrawn, and some 100 Negro policemen-nearly all Cleveland has-and 500 Negro civilians, mostly militants, were sent in. Stokes' bet paid off. Rioting stopped and no one was injured, though looting continued. Two nights after the flare-up, Stokes returned the Guard and an integrated police force. The Cleveland Insurance Board estimated damage from both fire and looting at a relatively...
...TIME'S office was manned round the clock. As Paris shut down and communications came to a halt, press packets had to be driven to Brussels, four hours away, for relay to New York. But when gasoline reserves dwindled, even that link with the outside world became tenuous. Office supplies began to run short, and just getting to work became something of an adventure. The red-rimmed eyes of the reporters filing for this week's cover story suggested sleepless nights, long hours spent crisscrossing a barricaded city, and the irritating effects of tear gas. Sooner or later...
...That was the only time, insisted Cavalaris, that he or anybody in his employ ever administered bute to Dancer's Image. His story suggested that Dancer's Image, through some quirk in his physiological makeup, retained the drug for an extraordinarily long period of time-a tenuous possibility after reports from Kentucky indicated that his urine contained considerably more than a mere trace of the drug. Two other explanations were favored by the horse's owner. Boston Auto Dealer Peter Fuller: 1) urine samples somehow got mixed up during the testing process, or 2) someone not connected...
...Hitler's Luftwaffe that began indiscriminate mass bombing in an attempt to break British morale, this charge is patently false. In the matter of General Sikorski's plane-crash death, no convincing proof is proffered that Churchill had a hand in it. It is a tenuous personal speculation indicative only of a common European fascination with conspiratorial-plot theories of history. One cut above a crank and several cuts below a thinker, Hochhuth seems very much like those dedicated slaphappy few who insist that Bacon wrote Shakespeare...