Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buda, rising some 770 feet above the Danube, commanded the approaches to Pest. The Germans had time to rim the city with strong points. The 950-foot river itself was a formidable last ditch. The Germans had men and machines. The Russians had to bring both over a tenuous supply line that looped far around the Carpathians...
...motorized attack. By this week Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had widened his front to 120 miles, captured Szeged, Hungary's second largest city, the Transylvanian capital of Cluj, and drawn near to Debrecen, where Patriot Louis Kossuth once declared Hungary's independence. But Malinovsky had a long, tenuous supply line, might be delayed until it was strengthened...
...Athanasios Klaras, known as Ares (Greek god of war), gives tenuous allegiance to the Leftist EAM, biggest of the Greek guerrilla factions. Before the war he did time in jail for forgery and worse. When the Germans came, he collected a gang of thugs, escaped to the hills, impartially harried Nazis and political opponents by slitting their ears and rubbing salt into the slits. A Greek who recently saw him describes Ares thus: "A swarthy face spanned by a handlebar mustache. ... He scorns rank, wears a uniform of which every piece is from a dead enemy. Around his fat waist...
France still had a legal claim; juridically, the mandate still existed. But this was a tenuous handhold on an area which has traditionally been the scene of Anglo-French imperial rivalry. Commented London's Times with surprising frankness: the settlement "enables the [Syrian and Lebanese] Governments to concert measures which may eventually further that larger Arab union which is one of the aims of British policy in the Middle East...
Four years of war and several near disasters taught Britain just how tenuous the Empire's sea and air links have become, made responsible Britons re-examine the British attitude about the war itself and what should come after. Last week TIME'S London correspondents examined this national thinking...