Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uncertain Smile. In Plant City, Fla., Mrs. Lizzie B. Morgan, 52, on the way to her driving test, turned into a parking space, accelerated instead of braking, crashed into the building housing the automobile-licensing bureau...
Jerry Cotter's condition is still uncertain after a shoulder dislocation last week. It is improbable that he will start tomorrow, especially considering the outstanding performance of Dub Mallonee in the 11-5 victory over Tufts on Wednesday...
...They fill the air with boomerangs. It's up to us to see they miss, no matter how." His personal style is unmistakable, reaching in places to the wonderful idiosyncrasy of J. D. Salinger's hero of The Catcher in the Rye. He has youth's uncertain arrogance ("Girls drool over me") and its superstitions (a jigger of beer drunk at 15-minute intervals will make you drunk) and its wisdom: "It's what you call things that matter to families...
...film comes from this everybody-has-a-story approach to all the characters. The life histories and present predicaments of each minor character intrude on the main action too much and tend to distract attention from the principals. You leave the theater confused by incidental episodes and uncertain about the director and script writer's purpose. If their purpose was to make a movie exactly life-like by packing it with interesting but irrelevant happenings, they have come dangerously close to succeding. Perhaps the greatest criticism of all cinematographic realists is that they are not selective enough in their presentation...
...uncertain whether or not the Essenes permitted marriage. The central cemetery seems to contain only male skeletons, but in smaller cemeteries adjoining it the remains of women and children have been found. It is possible that a secondary order of married Essenes grew up near the main community, or that the order relaxed its rule of celibacy at some time during its history (it is known from archaeological evidence that about 31 B.C., roughly coinciding with an earthquake, the Essenes left their desert community, did not return for more than 30 years...