Word: tenuousness
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...Humphrey Bogart, Warner Brothers has forsaken thrillers for the more artistic character study. Producer Jerry Wald would more happily have retained the perennial favorite, for "Dark Passage" comes to the screen as a castrated hybrid with neither excitement nor perceptible depth. Brilliant in spots, Director Delmer Daves weaves a tenuous, confusing story that becomes bearable only through the most strenuous efforts of an excellent supporting cast...
...current need for investigation of the '49 Red Book finances shows clearly how inadequate the tenuous control of the Student Council has proven. The Class of '49 has been advised by the probers that the Red Book will be distributed next June. Such assurance may console subscribers holding three dollar receipts, but anxious advertisers may be less elated. Of far larger import than the fate of this year's book is the long run repercussions any additional defection will have on selling space in future Red Books. Patently some supervisory body other than the Council is indicated to unify successive...
...been right about Greenland; and Lansing wrong. The U.S. frontier is now on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Thanks to "Seward's Folly," the fortress of North America has a castellated outpost at the northwest angle in Alaska. But at the northeast angle it has only tenuous base rights, to expire with the peace...
Wald himself is far more biased and inaccurate. He says, "Historicaly, the Zionists' claim to Palestine rests on extremely weak evidence; legally, it is equally tenuous. Rationally their argument suffers before the cold-blooded logic of the Arabs." He has, of course, a right to his opinion, but the above statement is so phrased that it sounds suspiciously as if he wants it to be accepted as fact, which it is not. Granting that opinions differ widely, no one who has taken the trouble to read the terms of Britain's mandate over Palestine and the various White Papers...
...sources are "tenuous" it is because the Gentile Church spent so many centuries routing out and destroying all historical evidence against its approved version of Jesus' life: but most of them are of equal validity with the canonical books...