Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goaltender Uncertain...
...Back in 1937 seven young ladies came to Mrs. Albert and asked her to help them bridge the gap from the young, uncertain, immature girl to the well poised, gracious, attractively groomed, confident young lady." It is plain by the girls' choice of words that Mrs. Albert had some pretty good material to start with, but this should not detract from her future accomplishments...
...Konrad Adenauer had been able to check West Germany's yearning to own the Saar, but he had not been able to arrest the Saar's own case of Germanic nationalism. Under Schneider's lashing, personal attacks, the European status had become dangerously linked with the uncertain fortunes of its chief proponent, Saar Premier Johannes ("Joho") Hoffmann and his pro-French Christian People's Party. The pro-Germans made up a word for his supporters-Speckfranzosen, i.e., literally, bacon-Frenchmen; loosely, pro-French for material interests. They jeered at the portly Joho as a longtime French...
...famed British Writers Rebecca West and the late H. G. Wells (who were never married, either), Novelist Anthony West has a pretty fair idea of what it means to be a Dickie Savage. In Heritage, his third novel and his best, he gracefully charts young Savage's uncertain course from childhood hurt to freewheeling young manhood. In other hands this could have been a sour book; instead, it is intelligent, witty, and tolerant toward the childishness of the great...
Always a Surprise. Running the Yanks this hectic season, Casey was caught in a pennant race as wild and uncertain as his 1923 inside-the-park homer. He got started slowly; not until May 21 did the Yanks pick up the lead. July 1 saw them 6½ games in front. Then they stumbled. By the end of August, Cleveland and Chicago were fighting for first. But in September the Yanks made Casey look like a prophet. He said that the team that won eight straight in the stretch would wind up in the World Series against the Dodgers...