Word: tenuousness
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...Italian proposals. He is, however, in a different position from Signor Mussolini. The Italian Premier enjoys almost universal popularity in Italy, but the Yugo-Slavian Government is in a shaky position, owing chiefly to the hostility of the Croats. Thus the chances of an immediate settlement are considered somewhat tenuous...
...Germany's last word has by no means yet been spoken. What Chancellor Stresemann says in effective only as long as his government remains in office and at present it hold on the office appears, to say the least, some-what tenuous. The two powerful actions, the Nationalists and the Communists, are agreed on one point--that the present government is not to their taste. The Nationalists want a strong central government and one which will admit defeat to no one; the Communists want a government which will squeeze the wealthy industrials until they can get more industrial control...
...tenuous Socratic discussion between a former college President and himself...
...curious antiques who make their living from the antique curiosities. His parents object because nobody in Philadelphia has ever heard of the Tweedles; and her parents object, even more strongly, because no one in Maine has ever heard of the Castleburys. The solution of this dilemma seems tenuous to the point of ineptitude?yet still surprisingly diverting...
...Whit manifestly not Chinese: but they are the stuff of poetry. Mr. R. C. Rogers in his "Sonnet" fingers an incoherent loveliness. The octave speaks of "chords that bind", an unfortunate ambiguity; the sestet hovers momentaly on the threshold of beauty; but the poem as a whole is tenuous and inarticulate. The "Winter Night's Spell" of Mr. Best plucks an old lute. We cannot help wishing there were more lines like these...