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Word: uncertain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol Hill, the debate was obviously going to continue for weeks. An Associated Press poll last week showed 44 Senators against ABM and 35 for it, with 21 undecided. Thus the ultimate resolution seems as uncertain as the prospect of any meeting of minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: DIGGING IN ON ABM | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Varsity lacrosse coach Bruce Munro is understandably optimistic, but at the same time uncertain, about the fortunes of his team as he prepares to take the Crimson on the annual spring recess trip into the South...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Lacrosse Coach Cautious But Hopeful About Season | 3/26/1969 | See Source »

...marijuana charge is similarly tenuous. A bag containing a quarter of an ounce was found in the paddy wagon shortly after the defendants left. It is uncertain who, if any of the defendants knew of the bag's presence. And it is unlikely that they left it there at all. The safest place to hie drugs is not a police car--and it is questionable whether anyone in a position likely to be arrested would carry drugs in the first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taking Care of Collins | 3/24/1969 | See Source »

That domination determines both their fates. When they meet again accidentally after the Anschluss, Wirthof has joined the SS and become an unthinking mouthpiece for Nazi ideology. Kazakh, a purposeless intellectual uncertain about his future or his feelings, has turned from engineering to become a hypnotist and a pioneer in advertising with nouveau riche connections. Curiously, it is Kazakh who comes closest to being a callous cynic. Wirthof, despite his crass behavior in bordellos, his egotistic mistreatment of acquaintances and his sensual brutality, is actually the overemotional romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Survivor | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Harvard has little chance of toppling pre-meet favorites Denver, Dartmouth, and the University of Colorado, and coach Dick Friedman sounds uncertain while predicting the Harvard will finish sixth among the 15-team field...

Author: By Patrick J. Hindert, | Title: Varsity Ski Team Rates as Underdog In Nest Week's NCAA Championships | 3/20/1969 | See Source »

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