Word: tenuousness
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...President Pusey has not learned the bloody lesson of 1789; he has not studied those Brumaires, those Thermidors. Only now does he learn how fragile is the fabric of society, how tenuous are the ties that hold together our common life...
Back in the days when it was still the French Sudan, Mali eked out a tenuous living on French colonial subsidies. When the Sudanese were granted autonomy from France in 1958, they sought to solve their economic problems by joining neighboring and more prosperous Senegal in the Mali Federation. But eight months ago, the Senegalese, fearful of Sudanese domination, seceded from the federation; they also refused the Sudanese (who stubbornly clung to the name Mali) further access to Senegal's great, modern port of Dakar. With no outlet to the sea and nothing to sell on world markets save...
...celluloid gut-spillers were a rousing commercial success-about the only dramatic success in a season of frightful failure. Producer David Susskind's tenuous empire was tottering: his Witness was canceled in midseason, his fatuous debate with Nikita Khrushchev drew critical scorn. As Susskind's hair began to thin and his pockets bulged, his image as TV's angry young rebel became less convincing, but his influence still pervaded the industry, and his Open End consistently demonstrated that conversation, if intelligent, can be entertaining. Jackie Gleason was miserably miscast as the M.C. of an ill-fated...
Space between the planets looks crystal clear to the unscientific eye. But there is indirect evidence that a very thin gas pervades at least some parts of it. Scientists have argued for years about this tenuous stuff: one theory holds that interplanetary space is filled with "resident" gas that has nothing to do with the planets; another claims that the outer fringe of the sun's glowing corona sometimes reaches out as far as the earth's orbit. The issue remained in doubt for the simple reason that no one had actually sampled interplanetary space, but in Britain...
...million, mostly in food, at the disposal of Poland last week, bringing to $426 million the total U.S. aid extended to Poland since Gomulka came to power in 1956 and won a tenuous independence from Soviet Russia. Even though Poland has hewed closely to the Soviet propaganda line in recent months, the U.S. hopes to encourage its independence, however circumscribed...