Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word. Despite all of the arguments of the political classicists-that party regularity and party responsibility are as essential to a functioning democracy as the secret ballot-"independent" had become a proud word. Some scarcely deserved the title. They were the merely vacillating who voted by band wagon, the uncertain who voted by a momentary fancy or prejudice against a candidate's accent or chance phrase. But the title also included the liberal with a distaste for the Democrats' cynical politicking and Government by crony, the conservative with a distaste for reactionaries and unreconciled isolationists still lodged...
...radio escaped, no television set was free of the hoarse exhortations and stylized imprecations of eager candidates. Professional and earnest amateur, statesman and anxious hoddypoll, they were shoving and jostling for the last, few, fatal votes from the indifferent and the uncertain...
Sergeant Murphy said that the Assistant Medical Examiner, Dr. John A. Luengo, submitted an autopsy report, indicating that he was uncertain about the cause of death...
...lose) I have an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement whereby I will be given a job with the state." Lehman, the incumbent, soundly beat John Foster Dulles last year to win the Senate post and also won over Dewey in 1938, when the latter first tried for the governorship. In an uncertain year, Lehman's election is as definite as anything...
...Dartmouth has been more outspoken. In early October, it ran the Dartmouth Christian Union's long and often unfavorable report on the fraternity system, and then reprinted what it called a "social formula" for those uncertain about joining fraternities. The formula: "Mr. Joseph H. College regrets that owing to a previous conception of purpose lie will be unable to accept the kind invitation of Alpha Beta Gamma." The next day, as a "public service," The Dartmouth listed the eleven local fraternities which discriminate on racial or religious grounds...