Word: uncertainity
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...biblical case, salt symbolized a lack of fidelity. In Genesis 19:1-29, two angels of the Lord command Lot, his wife and two daughters to flee the sinful city of Sodom without ever looking back. When Lot's wife cast a fleeting glance backward (her faith was uncertain), she was immediately transformed into a pillar of salt. A Roman religious ritual, however, in which grains of salt were placed on an eight-day-old babe's lips, prefigures the Roman Catholic baptismal ceremony in which a morsel of salt is placed in the mouth of the child...
Members of the citizen's group that has led opposition to the jail said yesterday they have not given up and are still hoping to keep the jail unoccupied. Frank Buttrick-president of the East Cambridge Citizen's Planning Team, said their plans are uncertain but that they definitely want the city to appeal Albert's decision...
...middle-class English couples prepare to set off together on a seven-day holiday up the River Orb. Trouble begins with a peevish squabble between Keith (Robin Bowerman), who organized the party, and his wife June (Carole Boyd). The next morning the Hadforth Bounty, Britain in miniature, starts its uncertain journey to Armageddon Bridge-where, as in the Bible, good and evil will meet in final conflict...
Tentative, or under "Consideration," stand her times, and those of many other swimmers in the meet, because the AIAW has not yet set definite cutoff marks. The governing body, under seige warfare with the NCAA, is uncertain how many members will defect to its rival before Nationals, and how many swimmers consequently will be available to fill event quotas...
...committee plans to meet in a closed session next Thursday to discuss what advice it will give the Corporation, but it is uncertain whether the issue will come to a vote, Corvey said