Word: tenuousness
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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Siege of Leningrad," an Iliad of a struggle in which the Russian city held out for 2½ years (August 1941 to January 1944) against German encirclement total except for one tenuous ice road across frozen Lake Ladoga...
...Crimson took a 23-12 lead early in the game, but excellent shooting and superior rebounding enabled Dartmouth to tie the score at 25-25. (Harvard's leading rebounder, Barry Williams, missed the game because of an injury.) The Crimson clung to a tenuous lead throughout the remainder of the first half, and left the court with a 45-42 lead...
...with 16 minutes remaining in the game, the Crimson held a tenuous one-point lead. The Eagles' first-half shooting had been poor, and Harvard's collapsing zone defense had kept even B.C.'s All-America candidate John Austin in check...
...Threat. In Ceylon, the tenuous, left-wing coalition government has for weeks been at the capricious mercy of the Buddhist clergy; last week the Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, lost a vote of confidence and dissolved Parliament, requiring new elections that are sure to be tumultuous. In Japan, Soka Gakkai, a new Buddhist sect claiming converts at the rate of 100,000 families a month, has launched its own political party, which, says its chairman, "naturally aims at ruling the nation." In Burma, an attempt to set up a Buddhist thearchy has led to chaos and left-wing military dictatorship...
With Stanleyville in tenuous government control and 500 hostages still scattered throughout a rebel-held reach of bush almost as large as France, Premier Moise Tshombe clearly needed more help. Major Mike Hoare, commander of the mercenaries fighting for the Congo government, sent his adjutant winging to Johannesburg to hire 150 more white soldiers. Tshombe himself flew off to Paris, where he pleaded unsuccessfully for assistance from Charles de Gaulle. Said Tshombe: "We are lost children struggling through the dark...