Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piping voices of the small nations -uncertain, parochial, timidly daring-were sounding last week through the corridors of the U.N. Suddenly, they sounded loud even in their own ears...
Farewell, Cities. With Election Day just five weeks off, few Democrats share Bobby Kennedy's certainty of victory. Although the professionals exude the usual public confidence, many politicians in both parties are privately jittery and uncertain about the outcome. All the current polls show Kennedy and Nixon running neck and neck, with as much as 25% of the electorate still undecided on how to vote. Even in traditionally "safe" states, the margin of safety is uncomfortably close, and neither party can breathe easily. Nixon's claim on California is as shaky as Kennedy's on North Carolina...
...establishment of House Fellows is a program whose merit is undeniable, but whose future is necessarily uncertain. The plan raises 21 present Associates of the Houses to the office of Fellow in order, in President Pusey's words, to "strengthen the Houses by bringing to the management of its affairs the direct interest and insights of a number of men from many departments." The exact duties of the Fellows are to be determined by the individual masters and Fellows, and this necessary indefiniteness is the danger of the program...
...United Nations, biggest reason for the drop was worry about what is going on in U.S. business. The course of the economy has been so puzzling this year-and so many have already guessed wrong on where the economy is going-that investors and businessmen alike have become uncertain. Few are at all sure about what is ahead. Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block spoke for many businessmen when he said: "I've never seen a year when our forecasts and actual production were so out of line...
...vote was 9 to o for the West's resolution. Poland and Russia abstained "in the interests of international cooperation." Yet what really constitutes "enforcement action" under Article 53 is still uncertain and potentially troublesome...