Word: tenuousness
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...sees himself as being little more than a tenuous survivor in the deadly game of life. He credits 15 years on a psychiatrist's couch with keeping him in the ranks of the walking wounded. "I was shot full of holes," he says. "But I was given a big bowl of chicken soup and told, 'Drink this. You are going to need it because you are going down into a very cold, scary mine!' Lots of love and chicken soup helped me through the trip." But among his heaviest losses was the death two years...
Under this plan, undergraduates who are either morally opposed or uncertain in their attitudes towards abortion would nevertheless be contributing to that act by virtue of their UHS health fee. The will of a tenuous majority should not be imposed on those with grave reservations about abortion...
...that first work, The Voyage Out. The editors make a case for certain parallels in characterization and action (the death of both Rachel and Thoby, for instance) but such parallels, especially when compared to those in Woolf's later novels To the Lighthouse and The Years, are quite tenuous...
...backing he enjoys from the white population of neighboring South Africa. Smith appears unmoved by recent nationalist successes in Mozambique and Angola and changes in South African policy which have combined to transform Rhodesia's status from that of a white buffer state firmly supported by Pretoria to a tenuous peninsula of white minority rule with uncertain South African support. Vorster has repeatedly stated that he would rather see a stable black government in Rhodesia than an unstable white one, and he realistically fears that the outbreak of open racial war in Rhodesia could easily spread southward. But Vorster...
...Most foreign students at Harvard have an American connection,' either first-hand or tenuous," says Malin, from his office on the third floor of Byerly Hall. That connection may be established through family, friends or previous visits to the United States--as the careers of these freshmen indicate--or in other, unknown ways. "We ask on the application how students learned about Harvard, but that's a loaded question. They give us the answer they think we'd like to hear, that it's known all over the world, has famous professors, etc.," Malin notes...