Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commenting on this extraordinary situation, Todd Gitlin, Tocsin's leader, said "the freshmen show an awareness of the issues (of disarmament and the arms race), even though they are uncertain about the answers...
...normal scheme of things, the Harvard freshman is supposed to be somewhat awed and more than a little confused by his initial experiences in the Yard. It is not that the College necessarily wants him to be confused and uncertain, but that is the way things normally work...
Harvard, which still hasn't forgotten Lehigh's last visit, and uncertain about the health of some key players, felt it couldn't afford to make any mistakes...
...virus, and a fresh outbreak should have come as no surprise. So far as is known, birds are the main natural reservoir of the virus, which is transmitted from bird to bird, and from bird to man, by mosquitoes. Where St. Petersburg's birds got the virus is uncertain, though Floridians chauvinistically blamed migrants from the tropics. Impartial authorities considered it equally probable that St. Petersburg has by now become a reservoir from which the virus is being carried to other regions. Man is an accidental and usually a dead-end receptacle for the virus. Direct...
...hatred: "No lover can talk more possessively of the object of his love than he did of me, even though he was cursing me. Surely, he was obsessed by me." The hero is convinced that B. needs him as much as he needs B.: "He was as uncertain and wavering as myself. Gripped by the fear of being a stranger to himself, he has raised up an adversary, me, and has painted my image on the wall, as the old painters painted their icons with sweating hands when their demon took possession of them...