Word: faintest
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...advising that Lebanon's President Chamoun was urgently requesting U.S. troops. The Dulles brothers outlined the problem: unless the U.S. acted soon, Lebanon would collapse, and quickly. Jordan would follow soon. The U.S. was morally bound to go to the aid of Lebanon, and there was just the faintest chance that a quick movement of troops to Lebanon might bolster whatever resistance there might still be in Iraq. The President's advisers agreed that U.S. intervention would surely reap hot Russian and Nasserian denunciation, but not, in all probability, armed opposition. Crisply and quickly, General Twining laid...
Citing this play in an article in last Sunday's New York Times, the British author Stephen Spender said: "The way in which a talent can be damped down by success to the faintest squeak of social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer's plea for sympathy with the man who gets off with girls in cinemas is a pill covered under about sixteen layers of sugar." True, the play was originally intended as a dramatization of the actual case of a well-known British actor with a taste for young men. But the result, watered down though...
...Government had not the faintest intention of giving Lebanon such sums-but still hadn't the Lebanese government, onetime ardent supporter of the Eisenhower Doctrine, now proved to all and sundry how independent of Washington it really...
...years, and to come back to earth, if at all, in a fiery cataclysm. But not a man. He wants to get back to earth not only unburnt but essentially unjarred. Now I assure you this is not easy, and we are a long way from having the faintest idea of how to do it in any practical...
Just a Tool. Mack was even more ignorant about the affairs of Andar Inc., which he was supposed to own. He did not know its officers' names, and did not have "the faintest idea" how much the company was worth. He said Whiteside had just "informed me" about Andar, and "didn't ge into the details." What did all this add up to? Had it never even occurred to Richie Mack that it was highly improper for a Federal Communications Commissioner to accept thousands of dollars from a lawyer interested in a case before the FCC? Replied Witness...