Word: uncertainity
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...manner most of the time tends toward the bashful, tensed but not combative. He cannot afford to come on too strong. Many of his 60 working hours a week have been spent on the telephone trying to engage strangers-mumbly, uncertain teen-agers-in serious conversations about their lives. He has called hundreds of high school seniors in his two-county district, most of them WaHi Blue Devils...
...decided the hotel's French chef Georges Mompezat, who sampled and loftily dismissed fowls from China and Hong Kong as too scrawny. He opted instead for 40 frozen toms from California ("There was no comparison"). His gold-embossed menu also called for fresh garden vegetables, always in uncertain supply in Peking, so a professor from the Peking Agricultural College was asked to oversee. Some came from the hotel's own greenhouse, but the canned cranberries had to be flown in from Hong Kong. Other ingredients were home grown: 176 lbs. of beef for the consomme...
...high gifts can supply the want of a true model, the sculptor has so far moulded the bronze figure of John Harvard. He rests his hand on the open tome between his knees, and gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, of promise which has been more than realized...
Ironically, the monument does not stand at the site of his burial (which was somewhere on "Burial Hill"), the site of his house is uncertain, since it was burned during the Battle of Bunker Hill, and only two copies of his signature exist. No portrait of him has ever come to light, and it is unlikely his father being an illiterate butcher, that a family portrait was ever done...
...Kalait in northeastern Chad can take days, even weeks, over one of the worst roads in Africa. It varies from soft, treacherous quicksand and dunes to flinty, sunbaked plains to immense boulders. On occasion it is mined by rebel infiltrators, and sometimes it is patroled by bandits of uncertain political persuasion...