Word: tenuousness
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...note declared that the Polish Government had collaborated in German claims that the Russians had murdered 10,000 Polish officers (TIME, April 26). Behind this incident lay an accumulation of differences which sooner or later was bound to revive the ancient enmity of Russia and Poland and break their tenuous alliance. Only in the sense that Goebbels' trumpetings had hastened the inevitable could the rupture be called a victory for Nazi propaganda...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, most metaphysical of aviators (Night Flight; Wind, Sand and Stars; Flight to Arras), has written a fairy tale for grownups. The symbolism is delicate and tenuous. It challenges man the adult, and deplores the loss of the child...
...Beveridge Plan as applied to this country received a somewhat tenuous endorsement, and 42 per cent called it "a vital necessity worth whatever it may cost in government control." A slightly smaller group were in favor of it "if it can be financed," while about ten per cent called it "crack-pot" and another one-tenth "dangerously totalitarian...
...wreckage, Finland is trying to save the tenuous thread of relations with its old and powerful friend, the U.S. The Finns hope that the end of their long road of misery will at least find Nazi troops gone and no Russian troops replacing them...
...dissolves like sugar in hot tea. On cooling, the adipic acid crystallizes out and is purified, while the diamine remains in solution and can be purified by distillation. The two white crystalline chemicals resulting from this unscrambling of nylon fiber are then recombined and polymerized to form the long, tenuous molecules that give nylon its strength and elasticity. This new liquid nylon, identical with the original substance, can be squeezed out into the types of fiber needed for war uses...