Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the campaign stumbled at the start. All parties, especially the Tories, were uncertain how to interpret a new election law. It limits what a candidate may legally spend to ?450, plus twopence for each voter in a county constituency, a penny ha'penny for each voter in a borough constituency. The law says that victorious candidates can be unseated if it is proved that they and their supporters spent more than the legal limit. The big question was: Would the courts decide that expenses of regular month-to-month political propaganda were chargeable against individual candidates as campaign...
...neighboring village of San Cesario. One might have thought the shoe would be on the other foot: Spilamberto's 3,500 people thrive on the yield of their vineyards, their orchards, and their explosives factory; San Cesario's 1,500 citizens live on lower ground, where the uncertain waters of the Panaro River often overflow into the vineyards and the groves of apple and cherry trees. But San Cesario has what Spilamberto wants: a small bronze cannon with a broken breech. Last week, Spilamberto was suing San Cesario for the cannon...
...that I understand how even the people in Sauk Center have come to wear a harassed, uncertain look, I can return to civilization for another fifty years. Perhaps with the illusions shed man will grow more mature by the year 2,000. Or perhaps the unpleasantness of looking at himself and the world unadorned will cause him to revert once again to his tribal ways. I noticed you deified another man last month--let's see, that makes the third this century...