Word: tenuousness
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...name implies, the Committee is neither checked by a specific mission nor by the necessity to produce suggestions for pertinent legislation. It may romp through any phase of domestic or foreign affairs at will, calling witnesses whose connection, even with the loosely defined area of investigation, is quite tenuous, and exposing them to a publicity hungry one-man tribunal...
Finally, as a bonus, MacArthur offered Harry Byrd his own updated formula for getting a decision in Korea: "We still possess the potential to destroy Red China's flimsy industrial base and sever her tenuous supply lines from the Soviet. This would deny her the resource to support modern war . . . and threaten the Soviet's present hold upon Asia. A warning of action of this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to bring the Korean struggle to an end without further bloodshed. It would dread risking the eventuality of a Red China debacle, and such...
Navy. Although his term doesn't expire until 1955, Admiral William Morrow Fechteler, 57. a sea dog with a somewhat tenuous hold on world politics and the art of interservice maneuvers, will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick ("Mick") Carney, 58, a Navy air enthusiast who has shaped up a first-rate land & sea fighting force as NATO commander for Southern Europe...
...coalition with "all those who accept apartheid in full sincerity," hoping thereby to gain the two-thirds majority which he needs, but does not have, to 1) disenfranchise 48,000 half-caste voters in Cape Province, 2) eliminate English as an equal official language, 3) snap the last tenuous threads that bind South Africa to the Commonwealth...
Hopes for a Wednesday victory over the Boston College hockey team took a somewhat tenuous boost yesterday...