Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choices are difficult. Unless Mao compromises and cools the Cultural Revolution or else thoroughly purges the army-if he still can-his troops are likely to remain uncertain and divided, making outright civil war an ever greater possibility...
About 100 mercenaries are now training royalist guerrillas in the hills of Yemen, and a squad of ex-R.A.F. pilots known as "the Dangerous Dozen" fly jet fighters for Saudi Arabia. In the Nigerian civil war, a mercenary of uncertain nationality named Johnny ("Kamikaze") Brown pilots the battered B-26 bomber owned by the rebel regime of Biafra...
...entanglements," thundered a recent editorial in the Deseret News. "Never have their natural resources been so extravagantly used, never has the national deficit been so great except in times of all-out war, never have taxes been higher, inflation more out of hand; never has youth faced a more uncertain future, never have there been heavier encroachments on personal liberty by an all-powerful federal government, never has crime been more ugly and broad, never the air more polluted, food, clothing more expensive-ad infinitum...
Even if the Vote on Vietnam canvassers have as much success with all Cambridge as they seem to have had with Mrs. K., there is some question whether their resolution qualifies to be put on the ballot. It is uncertain whether the charter requires the City Council to place on the ballot a statement directed at a national issue, outsode the pervue of local government. The canvassers people expect the council to try to disqualify the petition "on technicalities," and they are preparing to fight the matter out in court...
When a dog's social relationships are uncertain, or its family environment is insecure, or its master fails to live up to the kind of leadership image the dog has in mind, there is fertile ground for the seeds of mental illness to take root...