Word: tenuousness
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...million, dominate the rest of the land? The invariable answer: sort of. One way or another, ever since Nigeria gained its independence five years ago, the North has managed to hold on to the prime ministry, keep itself a sizable majority in the federal parliament and maintain its tenuous, if often disputed, control of other regions...
...cult of a dying God, although rooted in error, is a good sign. It is the first indication that man is at last willing to recognize and become accountable for his secular responsibilities. The problems of man on earth are within human powers to solve. Reliance upon the tenuous assistance of a celestial company can only dilute man's efforts and impede progress. It has been said, however, that God must be invented. If this is true, as it probably is, let's stop trying to invent the wrong kind. Above all, let's understand that...
...Terror. That there was no full-scale fighting was due largely to U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth T. Bunker, the tall, white-haired OAS negotiator and chief architect of the tenuous Dominican truce. In an eleventh-hour session at the National Palace, Bunker strongly reminded Garcia-Godoy that alienating the military was hardly the way to run a government of reconciliation. He got the President, and later Rivera Caminero, to agree on the pacification of Santo Domingo through a house-to-house arms search by military, police and civilian teams. Garcia-Godoy then ordered OAS troops into the rebel area to make...
First, Allard Lowenstein is not a member of the "New Left." Those who are in the movement as well as Mr. Lowenstein are equally dismayed by the identification. In addition, although Irving Howe is a radical, it is tenuous to describe him as a member of the "New Left." The very point of his article "New Styles in Leftism" in the Summer Dissent was to attack the trend of the radical student movements. Moreover, both he and Mr. Lowenstein spoke in favor of a political coalition of labor, the churches, Negroes, and intellectuals to continue the movement toward reform that...
...evidence of the existence of "messenger RNA" in mammalian cells. As a result, there is a great temptation to extrapolate all the way from microbe to man and assume that long-dormant viruses may belatedly trigger cancerous changes in human cells. The evidence for this, so far, is extremely tenuous. But the Nobel Prize committee, which has sometimes been as much as 30 years late in recognizing achievement, has now reached toward the future in making its 1965 award...