Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...western and northern Europe, the Germans have no buffer lands to trade for time, or for a tenuous, temporary security. Occupied Denmark and Norway lie between Britain and the coast of north eastern Germany. But they are no places for rear-guard economy; they are places to be held as strongly and fiercely as the Germans would fight for their own coast. For, if they fall, the inner fortress will have been breached...
Professor Allen has been concerned about the often tenuous relationships between music and society. Our Marching Civilization (Stanford University Press; $2.50) is the bracing result. Says Professor Allen...
...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...