Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says that he is just a bit dubious at finding himself in step with the herd. The crystal-ball gazers predict that the national product will jump to a $500 billion rate in the first quarter, race on to $525 billion or better before leveling off at $510 billion and the first half-trillion economy the world has ever known...
...sophomores have looked well so far, but their effectiveness at defensive play had yet to be proved. It can only be built up in game competition, which makes the varsity's hopes, for the early part of the season at least, somewhat dubious. With the needed game experience, however, Weiland feels the team is certainly capable of picking up the league title...
...Metropolitan Transit System last summer. For weeks on end, disk-jockeys played the sad tale of Charlie, trapped on the MTA, never able to escape from the miles of tunnels beneath Boston streets. The MTA, however, has received a more stinging notoriety this year--it has the dubious distinction of losing the most money of any American public transit system. Last year the MTA went $16 million into the red, which was assessed upon the 14 communities served directly by the Authority. And with recent demands made by the Carmen's Union, which includes two-thirds of the system...
...money be found? Even a UNESCO spokesman seemed dubious because, as he put it, the only recompense would be "a few priceless treasures of history, perhaps not enough to attract the necessary funds...
...Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Decks (NBC). Not long ago Guinness, perhaps best remembered, for his role as the dubious bank clerk in The Lavender Hill Mob, declared: "I have an absolutely unalterable rule-no more roles about a dubious bank clerk." For his TV debut, he played just such a clerk, who dubiously plots to avenge 22 years of thankless labor by humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when...