Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golden curtain" of the U.S.; more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives the dispossessed their only hope...
...years of childless marriage that my husband and I discovered, to our astonishment, that he was sterile. Had it not been for the sympathetic cooperation of a certain obstetrician we would have had to remain childless, and thus ruin our whole future happiness, or else undertake the difficult and uncertain business of adoption-an alternative which is full of psychological problems for both parents and children, and certainly no completely satisfactory substitute for bearing and raising your...
...come out of the war with a mattressfull of money-$100 million-but it was short of postwar business. The management, which thought there was only a "limited and unprofitable" postwar market for its aircraft engines and planes, wanted to hold the cash to tide the company over the uncertain future. But a group of vociferous stockholders last winter complained that the cash in the mattress alone was about three times the market value of its stock. They wanted some of the cash paid...
...clock, modestly to demand the cause; and if they appear ill-minded, to watch them narrowly . . ." Among the early "Rules and Regulations of Harvard College," issued at about the same time, was one enjoining students to "be slow to speak, and eschew not only oaths, lies and uncertain rumours, but likewise all idle, foolish, bitter scoffing, frothy, wanton words and offensive gestures...
...world, a little uncertain whether to expect fun or disaster, eagerly watched another one of those strange American tribal customs-the Republican National Convention. A corps of 45 foreign correspondents tried its baffled best to explain the proceedings to the folks back home. Wrote the Manchester Guardian's Alistair Cooke: "The art of conveying to a European audience the rules of the convention game eludes us all. Like baseball or the twelve-bar blues, it is seemingly too fluid a thing to be grasped...