Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western delegates arrived in Geneva in a mood of no nonsense, no politics and not much hope. This was to be a scientific meeting of technical experts, but the Western scientists were uncertain whether the Eastern delegates would be in the same mood-or whether the Eastern delegates would be there...
...sandy, sunny beach as well as 14 "high hazard" slum areas, where more than 100 organized gangs prowl the streets. To these potential trouble points went 700 extra police in uniform or plainclothes, on foot or in radio cruisers, trained and ready to study the faces of an uncertain generation and to move in hard and fast on its rebels...
...Purifying Life. Though he is slated to become Minister of War in the government in exile that the Algerians may soon be forming, Krim is obviously pained by the idea of playing a political role. Divorced, separated from his two children, and uncertain whether his father is alive or dead, he declares that "the only love I can have is for my country." A good part of that love seems really to be a longing for adventure, which the Moslem moujahid shares with the swaggering paratroopers of France. As we flew over the sandy wastes of Libya, Krim gestured...
...principal earlier success was the six-meter Circe, which in 1938 beat all comers in the international matches. Sceptre's African mahogany planking, her steel and oak frames and her 20-ton keel were skillfully transformed into a racing yacht under such rigid security that outsiders are still uncertain about all her essential statistics. But her 44 ft. on the waterline come close to the dimensions of all the cup defenders; so does her 12-ft. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. Her sails are of Terylene (British equivalent of Dacron), and her running rigging...
...larger sense, it might be wise not to undertake lengthy trips, if game conditions at the host campus are at all uncertain. We are not sure, from our relatively uninformed vantage-point, just what the answer to all this is: but we would be very surprised if there were no answer...