Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice versa. An example of what that meant came this week from Brussels, where Britain and France seemed ready to join with Benelux in a military as well as economic alliance (see INTERNATIONAL). With full U.S. backing, such a pact might finally draw a firm line between the uncertain West and the all-too-certain East...
...failure was not so much in policy as in performance. Except for a few notable exceptions, U.S. leadership in world affairs had been unimaginative and uncertain. Time & again the U.S. had failed to grasp its opportunities. When Britain's Ernest Bevin suggested a union of Britain and Western Europe, the U.S. had cheered loudly, then sidestepped. The union idea died on the vine. In the U.N., around the anterooms and lounges, the most frequently heard complaint from delegates who looked to the U.S. for leadership was: "We would like to follow you but we don't know where...
...Crimson forward wall has undergone drastic changes this week. George Minot may be out of commission with a bad knee, leaving an uncertain gap in the first line, as former first-stringer Wally Sears has been skating with the third line since the Dartmouth game, Tom Moseley has also retired from the scene, owing to academic pressure...
Dick Harlow was always a lone wolf, wary of his opponents and his critics in the press and uncertain as to the ability of his assistant coaches. He demanded active command in all departments, and sometimes it was just too much...
...Limit? Unquestionably, the ladies lacked the crinoline-&-poke-bonnet zeal of their forerunners. Perhaps they had become jaded with success. There were even some faint, uncertain signs of a retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...