Word: uncertainity
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...lasciviousness in the proper perspective, and he notes, "Boswell's behavior, his drinking and womanizing was as commonplace in his time as it is today." Indeed, he begins his study unequivocally: "decency, discretion, propriety--Boswell had struck a new note." Brady's Boswell is a man of no uncertain complication or genius...
...with them everything should have been more simple; a kind of female solidarity would certainly have gone into action in this serious crisis, in this anxiety that only a fellow woman could completely understand. But possibilities of communication with members of her own sex were rarer and more uncertain, unlike the perilous ease of encounters with men: and a distrust--reciprocal this time--blocked such communication...
...even as Baby Fae seemed to be demonstrating Bailey's point, critics charged that xenografts are still too uncertain and that other treatments should have been considered. Dr. Moneim Fadali, a cardiovascular surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles, was one of several physicians to suggest that the decision to use an animal organ may have been "a matter of bravado" and that a human heart "would have offered the child a better chance of survival." Loma Linda Surgeon David Hinshaw explained that he and his colleagues believed that the hope of finding a compatible human heart in time...
...less durable products, reach the public through a network of production and distribution. Raw materials are imported and fabricated by artists and scholars. The newest images and thought are offered in galleries and boutique periodicals. Eventually the avant-garde attracts the journalists, and the elite get to take an uncertain bow be fore the philistines...
...reelection have only re-emphasized the cynicism of his four years in office. Refusing to meet his opponent head-on at home, Nixon has waged his campaign at the negotiating table through the machinations of Henry Kissinger. Promises of an imminent peace while the details of a settlement remain uncertain is an obvious attempt to obscure the four years of death and destruction in Indochina while Nixon has been Commander-in-Chief...