Word: uncertainity
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...John Taylor holds up a lady's garter. Peering into this lost world--reprehensible, no doubt, for its elitism, sexism, amateurism and other social vices, yet not without its allure--one realizes what Sir Sploshua's friend Sir George Beaumont meant when he swept aside the doubts of an uncertain client: "No matter, take the chance; even a faded picture from Reynolds will be the finest thing you can have...
...have caused such family tangles. The problem was that the Gettys were not a family. J. Paul's five marriages produced five sons. Only two, Jean Paul Jr. and Gordon Peter, were full brothers. How much one can blame a father for the fate of his children is uncertain, though Getty's absenteeism and disparaging attitude toward his sons were not helpful. The oldest, George F. II, a president of Tidewater Oil, died an apparent suicide in 1973. Jean Ronald, born to a German mother in 1929, left the family oil business to produce a few minor films like Flare...
...first of these is the Unwilling Academic, a bespectacled, goat-voiced man in his 30s who has spent the last nine years of his life in Namibia cheerfully studying gibbon dung. As is evident in his shaking hands and uncertain style, only the twin prospects of starvation and separation from his beloved droppings has forced him onto the stage...
Bourbeau, Harvard's fourth-leading and the nation's eighth-leading scorer, missed a month of action with a torn stomach muscle. Meanwhile, Fusco's status remains uncertain...
Hockey Captain Scott Fusco's status for this weekend's ECAC quarterfinal series with Colgate is still uncertain. Although the senior says his condition is "improved," he adds that his injured shoulder is "still not great...