Word: tenuousness
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...explanation for the tenuous relations between the two which did not get much attention was Harvard's alleged slighting of Princeton in Big Three matters. First of all, the Crimson was interested in playing Michigan instead of the Tigers in 1927. Princeton was further irritated when a suggestion that it be Harvard's final game every other year, and Yale the Crimson's final game every other year, was quickly rebuffed. Harvard officials did not disguise their feelings that Princeton was least important member of the Big Three, and the Lampoon incident was enough to upset the tender balance...
...telling commentary on the whole evening was the audience's uncertainty whether to applaud once Chestnut's body was removed from the stage. The plot threads were that tenuous. A few glimpses of Chestnut as a baby, cub scout and young man were projected on the wall of the house, but these seemed only token gestures after the exciting film work in Zone 2. With greater selective judgment, Criss could have shortened this play by one hour and made far better use of his extremely gifted actors. Where he did venture into experimentation, he had solid backing from John Jacobson...
...Pope Paul, Italy's President Giuseppe Saragat, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Spain's General Francisco Franco and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, applauded the effort and urged its continuation -though Nasser's death and the Jordanian war make the prospect for progress more tenuous than ever (see THE WORLD...
...been a part of every U.S.W. contract since 1936, and is a common feature of most other labor agreements. It forbids any wildcat strike during the life of a contract, providing instead for binding arbitration to settle local grievances. The clause is fundamental to the U.S.'s tenuous labor peace-in contrast with Britain, where workers can walk out in mid-contract. If the no-strike clause is abolished, said a U.S.W. official, "it will be just like the old days again: work on Monday and Tuesday and strike on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday...
...flag visit to the Mediterranean is an indirect tribute to the boldness of recent Soviet strategy. Since the debacle of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Russians have managed to challenge the U.S. Sixth Fleet as the paramount naval power in the area, to loosen Washington's already tenuous diplomatic foothold in the Arab world, and to establish a disturbing Communist presence along most of the southern flank of NATO. The Soviets have managed these feats by deploying a large, modern naval force in the Mediterranean, and by artfully cementing relations with regimes from Suez all the way across...