Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France: Spending 18.6% for defense, may increase to 29%. Under arms: 697,000 men, 7 divisions; 150,000 of her troops are in Indo-China. Available to NATO: 3 divisions now, 15 by the end of 1952. Equipment: fair, but improving with U.S. help. Morale: uncertain-i.e., poor but could be made good; shot through with Communism, beset by uncertainties of revolving-door government-facts which Premier Pleven (see The Presidency) refuses to recognize publicly; anti-Communism could be solidified...
...Archbishop of Peking and the first Chinese to be elevated to cardinal, arrived in Manhattan on his way to a Cincinnati hospital for treatment of an eye ailment and a heart condition.* With the aid of an interpreter, he told reporters that he was seriously worried about the uncertain future of the 12,000 priests and nuns in Red China of whom 11,000 are Chinese...
...Prensa provides a free medical clinic (23 doctors) and free legal advice (six lawyers) for its staff and the people of Buenos Aires. It runs an excellent free library, a free music school (100 students). It also maintains its own delivery service, a hangover from 19th Century days of uncertain mails. Though few ask such service nowadays, La Prensa will still deliver in Argentina any letter addressed in care of its stately headquarters across the street from the presidential palace...
Members of the Transportation Committee were uncertain last night about the chances of the measure passing the full House of Representatives. The bill, if passed, would decrease transit revenues, and some felt that it would be unfair to give college commuters a reduction at the expense of the rest of the population...
...executive branch is riddled with bribe-takers and other grafters. Again, the reason is insecurity. Said a foreign diplomat who knows Iran: "Political fortunes are so fluctuating that officials hedge their bets. Life in or out of office is so uncertain that money seems the only sure thing; hence bribery flourishes. Where nothing and nobody appear trustworthy, intrigue becomes the pattern of action, and orderly government becomes impossible...