Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Wisconsin voters turn out for the critical presidential primary. The thumb looked healthier by the day: Congressional Districts 4, 5, 6 and 8, along the East Coast, were strong Kennedy country; he even strengthened it by giving himself the doubtful First, at the base of his thumb. Still uncertain was the area running roughly from the middle finger to the pinkie-the Second, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth. That is where Opponent Hubert Humphrey has been riding high, and where last week Jack Kennedy rolled his campaign machinery...
...setting up house in each post. While he was on duty in the Pacific, she lived in a boardinghouse in San Francisco, worked as an OPA economist. At war's end, Lieut. Commander Nixon and his lady were stationed in Baltimore. Pat was pregnant, and the future was uncertain. Then a now-famous telegram came from Whittier: a "Committee of One Hundred" active Republicans wanted to know if Dick would be interested in running for the congressional seat solidly held by Democrat Jerry Voorhis. After discussing the proposition at length, says Pat, "I could see that...
...decaying minds, and to feel the texture of withering flesh. But something is lost when Simon's subject is less elemental than death. The reader never really learns what is happening to the book's narrator, the daughter-in-law of the bickering couple. The same uncertain fog enshrouds her husband-or is it her lover? Ambiguity has its uses, but Author Simon's manner sometimes seems to be the pointless result of a powerful technique thoughtlessly applied...
...week's end the newsmen and photographers from all over Europe who filled the court were uncertain what impression was being gained by the twelve apple-cheeked Swiss jurors who will decide whether lovelorn Pierre Jaccoud goes free or goes to jail for life for "murder with singular perversity." But already the testimony had been such that staid, strait-laced Geneva-the society that ignores tourists and scorns international conclaves -is not likely to be the same for a long time to come. Said a Swiss-German lawyer of the Swiss-French city: "This is the undoing...
...Uncertain Trumpet, Taylor...