Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tenuous plot has the out-of-sorts singer brought to his senses by a pretty Viennese Fräulein, nicely played by German Actress Johanna von Koczian, in her American screen debut. She is the only woman on the Continent whom Mario can trust to love him for love alone. Reason: she is stone deaf. That is, until she has that operation, "dangerously close to the brain." If, like Johanna, moviegoers could keep their ears closed and their eyes open, they might enjoy Salzburg, Rome, Capri and Anacapri in fetching color. And by letting Zsa Zsa be Zsa Zsa, Director...
Fearing that the murder might break Lebanon's tenuous internal peace, the Cabinet met in emergency session, attended Moghabghab's state funeral en masse. The army was recalled from maneuvers, dispatched to the Chouf. Ex-President Chamoun berated the government for failing to protect his friend. Chieftain Jumblatt offered his tepid regrets ("It was fate's will...
...numbers, the Chinese most of the money. It can exist only if the twain can meet. Thanks largely to the foresighted leadership of Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, a wealthy, Cambridge-educated Moslem prince, peaceful and prosperous Malaya is run by a coalition Alliance Party, which has established a tenuous racial harmony among Malaya's 6,500,000 polyglot population...
...Snow and his colleagues have interviewed about 25% of Britain's 125,000-odd scientific workers. "I confess that even I, who am fond of them and respect them, was a bit shaken. We hadn't expected that the links with traditional culture should be so tenuous." When asked what books they read, the scientists said: " 'Well, I've tried a bit of Dickens,' rather as though Dickens were an extraordinarily esoteric, tangled and dubiously rewarding writer...
...these views present a God whose substance is so tenuous and vague that, like certain very rare gases, it becomes highly enigmatic to say that He is "there" at all. Such a being certainly seems incapable of having much more of an effect on human life than the normal inhalation of argon. Most of these notions come close enough to Tillich's to be intellectually "shoe," however, and their conformity to the negative doctrines of some of the authorized Judaeo-Christian mystics gives them a certain eccentrically orthodox sanction that allows the West's religious tradition to appear superficially unbroken...