Word: tenuousness
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...position of undergraduate women at Harvard remains as tenuous as ever. Harvard still very much belongs to the Harvard "man," while Radcliffe "girls" are merely suffered as attractive, exotic interlopers. Individually, many women now living in Harvard Houses tell of repeated rebuffs on the part of Senior Tutors and House secretaries. When one representative group of senior women living in Lowell House complained of overcrowding, arguing that senior men were given private rooms, they were told that if they weren't happy with their situation they could simply move back to the Cliffe...
...crucifixion in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although history records that this form of punishment was continued by the Romans until the 4th century A.D. (when it was finally outlawed by the Emperor Constantine I, who legalized Christianity in the empire), the only previous physical evidence of crucifixion was extremely tenuous. It consisted of a few bones, excavated in Italy and Rumania, containing holes in the forearms and heels that could have been made during crucifixions. But there was never any trace of the nails that might have been used to penetrate the body of the victim and fasten...
Ever since colonial times, the economic links between upstate New York and northern New England have been tenuous. Mountain ranges and rivers cleave the two regions; no major highway has ever been built to run between the far northeastern segment of the U.S., west and south across New York. Now, a volunteer group of business and government executives from New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine is working hard to fill that need. Among the leaders of this unusual bit of interstate cooperation are Bartlett Cram, industrial consultant; Hamilton South, a former Marine brigadier general who is now a vice...
Although Gierek's words could be taken at face value, they also indicated his tenuous and perhaps even temporary hold on his new post. There is some evidence to suggest that Gierek was only one of the key leaders who called the extraordinary meeting of the Politburo last weekend that led to Gomulka's downfall. His own election to the post of party boss was clearly the result of an internal compromise. Raised to full membership in the Politburo was Gomulka's powerful enemy, Mieczyslaw Moczar-who turned 57 on Christmas Day-the xenophobic, rigid hero...
...these symptoms are explained, Psychiatrist Nicholi believes, by the patients' "tenuous masculine identification," often caused by difficult childhood relationships with demanding, critical and successful fathers. The sons felt it hopeless to try to be like them, and thus used their motorcycles to compensate for feelings of effeminacy and weakness...