Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even consider U.S. military intervention in Laos as a serious alternative. In his inaugural address. President Kennedy had declared that the U.S. would "pay any price" to "assure the survival and success of liberty." But to the Kennedy Administration, the price in Laos seemed too high-and it felt uncertain of the results...
...role in Stanley Kramer's film Judgment at Nuremberg. She will soon tape a television show for next season, is considering a Broadway show. Most important, Judy, at 38, is singing at her best, far above the level of two years ago, when she appeared, puffy-faced and uncertain, at Manhattan...
...concessions too. He will be most effective if he is able to be himself. All our experience shows that one can reach across cultural boundaries most successfully if he is standing on the solid ground of self-knowledge and self-respect. The man who stands on the shaky and uncertain ground of self-rejection and martyrdom, the man who is not a fish and yet is trying desperately not to be a fowl, has no footing from which to reach across any boundaries...
...unmistakably Cheever country (nice house, nice income, nice wife, nice kids, all of it tasting of despair and a thick tongue the morning after). But only rarely is there a true hellion to be found there. There are, rather, middleclass, earthly sufferers whose jobs are as uncertain or as unsatisfying as their moral underpinnings, their visions of goodness constantly clouded by the more intolerable vision of the sad ending that must overtake them and their neighbors...
...Anybody who has played on the fields knows that something has to be done pretty quickly," President Pusey told a press conference yesterday. However, Pusey added that he was uncertain as to when action would be taken...