Word: tenuousness
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...machine-gun burst in the night, a bus full of farmers dynamited, the satchel of plastique, the grenade tossed into a crowd?all are surgically planned by the Viet Cong to specific ends. In the countryside, terrorism often aims to stamp out the peasants' sense of security, always tenuous at best. A few guerrillas firing a dozen shots near a lightly defended government village pose an agonizing problem for the local commander. If he calls for reinforcements, it is almost certain that no enemy will be found. If he does not, the villagers may begin to wonder whether the government...
...site of the Temple in accordance with medieval tradition. Most Biblical scholars, nonetheless, now believe that Jesus' death march began on the other side of the Old City, near the Jaffa Gate. Many of the churches marking the shrines, moreover, have been rebuilt so often that they have tenuous claims to antiquity. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher has been destroyed twice and renovated no fewer than seven times, most recently...
...problem in American foreign relations. As one former member of the Johnson Administration put it a few days ago. "I haven't found anybody up here in quite a while who will defend the Administration's policy right down the line." This mounting "dovishness" puts partisan Democrats in a tenuous position; the national leader of their party will be in a tight election next vear, but should he defeat his Republican opponent, he might interpret his victory as a mandate for his present Vietnam policy...
...problem in American foreign relations. As one former member of the Johnson Administration put it a few days ago, "I haven't found anybody up here in quite a while who will defend the Administration's policy right down the line." This mounting "dovishness" puts partisan Democrats in a tenuous position; the national leader of their party will be in a tight election next year, but should he defeat his Republican opponent, he might interpret his victory as a mandate for his present Vietnam policy...
Meanwhile, those who administer T.S.U. feel themselves in a tenuous position. Dean of Students James B. Jones warned the students that the legislature is meeting right now to consider a cut in the university's already skimpy budget. An active SNCC chapter on the campus, Dean Jones reasons, would certainly not appease the legislators from the segregationist citadels of rural east Texas. Jones added that the university's present fund-raising campaign in Houston might be endangered if radical Black Power advocates gained too much student support, or any form of toleration from the administration. Indeed, if the editorial policy...