Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uncertain at first, Laval soon regained his old bearing. He dominated the chamber. He ignored judicial admonitions, whispered to reporters, half-bowed and smiled ingratiatingly at the Marshal. Though he knew he was not yet on trial, he also knew that his testimony was a prelude to his own fight for life...
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...Tories, with Churchill's war achievement to trade on, were reconciled to losses but confident of victory. Labor, committed to a drastic socialist program, was sure of gains, uncertain of victory. Liberals hoped at most to snatch a vital balance of power. To a world anxiously inquiring: "Stands Britain where she did?'1, British voters would soon give an answer. Presumably it would...
...country by the Nazis was the first to come back. In London Norway's Haakon VII waited for a symbolic date before following Premier Johan Nygaardsvold and the members of the Norwegian Government in Exile who returned to Oslo last week. The homing officials were somewhat uncertain about the changes in Norway's political climate during their absence. But seldom has a returning Government in Exile been so warmly welcomed. Hundreds of fjordside villagers went out in small boats to meet the liner which brought Nygaardsvold home. When the Premier and his Ministers walked down the gangplank, hundreds...
Muscular Prose. Dissenting justices stated their objections in muscular prose. Said Hugo La Fayette Black: "The Williamses have been convicted under a statute so uncertain in its application that not even the most learned member of the bar could have advised them in advance as to whether their conduct would violate the law. . . . [This] will cast a cloud over the lives of countless . . . divorced persons...