Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening. He was drunk as a lord and weaving about in the east part of town in his truck. . . . On his arrival [at the jail] he greeted Sheriff Bassett with the remark, 'I'm one drunk son of a bitch.' And there wasn't any doubt about the veracity of the first three words of this statement...
Stalin, said Moscow Radio, had drafted the orders "utilizing the rich and many-sided experience of the Great Fatherland War," and "permeated with . . . solicitude for the might of the Soviet Armed Forces." But there was no doubt that Stalin was permeated also by solicitude over the fact that in the wake of the Great Fatherland War, undisciplined occupation troops proved Russia's most potent ambassadors of ill will...
...week, the Company was up for sale to Britain's Labor Government. The price was not yet fixed (the Company had rejected a Government offer of ?2,100,000), and assorted descendants of the original Sultan of Sulu were raising claims to the island. But there was no doubt that the grandly anachronistic rule of the last corporate Raj was doomed. Said the president of the court of directors, white-haired, parchment-skinned, 76-year-old Major General (retired) Sir Neill Malcolm: "[The Company] is not quite in accord with modern ideas...
...Howe told the House of Commons that no one in Canada knows how the U.S. makes atomic bombs. And he did not think Canada would be given the information if she asked for it unless it was thought Canada really needed it. . . . But, he butted: "I have no doubt that, having the . . . explosive material which we make in Canada, our ordnance people could make a bomb of their own. I doubt very much whether they will do it, but that will be up to the military forces...
...Wholley and John Knowles, and first sacker Bill Fitz. But the rest of the squad, second baseman Saul Mariaschin, shortstop Don Forte, third-baseman Don Coppinger, and outfielders Nick Rodis and Mal Allen will leave the Crimson squad after the Eli contest, and their positions remain a matter of doubt until Samborski sizes up his new prospects...