Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...senses that Hunter has tenuous control of his experiment; time is a tricky business. When he makes mistakes, however, he proceeds to rectify them, right out in the open, so everybody can profit. Anastasia discovers her brother's camera and turns to him with a slight smile. (She acts so well, that girl, always with nuance, the slightest gestures. In that smile there is scorn and sympathy and indifference.) Embarrassed, Twelvetrees slaps her, an act usually good for some kind of effect. But we are looking through a marijuana camera. Anastasia's face snaps around, fixes directly on the lens...
...moral goal must outweigh the violent means involved. Says Lutheran Pastor Richard Neuhaus of Brooklyn, a co-founder of Clergy and Laymen Concerned: "There is no legitimate proportionality between the credible goals of the war and the means being used to win it. The credible goals are weak and tenuous, and the means are evident in their harshness...
...whole series of more formal mediation efforts in the works, Curle hesitates to claim credit for any specified accords. He feels, though, that his team--he and two other Quakers--may have prevented some potential disasters by warning the antagonists against specific actions which would have ruptured the tenuous cease-fire...
...Angry Feud. Holt's biggest single achievement, however, was holding together the tenuous government coalition organized 23 years ago between his own Liberal Party, which controls 81 of Parliament's 184 seats, and the Country Party, which holds 28 seats. Lacking Menzies' charisma, Holt often had to resort to face-losing compromises that made him look weak. Still, that was better, he felt, than the Menzies-style one-man rule. Holt believed in a "leadership that can lead but at the same time be close enough to the team to be part...
...rights to large Communist parties-as France and Italy did after World War II-does not necessarily subvert democracy. In Laos, the U.S. and other nations agreed with the Communists in 1962 to set up a left-right-center coalition government and, much to everyone's surprise, that tenuous troika is still rattling along...