Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev also was talking about negotiations-in peevish, uncertain terms. Reporting back to Kennedy from a conference with Khrushchev at the Soviet leader's Black Sea dacha, Disarmament Adviser John McCloy found the Russian to be totally belligerent in mood-and irrational in manner. Khrushchev, said McCloy, was "absolutely serious" about extracting what he called the "rotten tooth" of Berlin. To Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, who called on him last week, Khrushchev warned of a nuclear war that would wipe out Italy and Britain (where the U.S. has missile bases) if the West attempted to preserve...
...18th green at Chicago's Olympia Fields Country Club, in the uncertain twilight, Carl Jerome Barber squinted cautiously down the shaft of his putter at the ball. A long 60 ft. stretched between him and the cup, and Dallas Pro Don January, 31, would take the P.G.A. first money if Barber missed. Barber didn't miss. He sank his putt and a tie was his. In the play-off next day, holing long putts with fresh assurance. Jerry Barber finished one stroke ahead of January to become, at 45, the oldest and smallest golfer ever...
...understaffed, the ICC itself harbors no illusions about its in adequacy to run the railroads. Complains one ICC commissioner: "When we get exhibits as big as a telephone directory and hear all sides tell their stories for weeks on end-I tell you, rate deciding gets to be as uncertain as psychiatry...
...that "Taylor quickly found himself bracketed between Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, who undercut him constantly, and squabbling factions of officers." How can you condone such sloppy reporting and such a ludicrous statement about me? Your story about General Taylor used the name of his book, The Uncertain Trumpet, several times, hence you were on notice that his book contradicts your story and was most laudatory...
Greater Crime. Had not this uncertain student confidently called a former Nazi a "scoundrel" for criticizing Hitler? "This man swore allegiance to the flag," rejoined Eichmann. "I regard violation of loyalty as the greatest crime a man can perpetrate...