Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domestic test. Less than two weeks after Dallas, he was discussing his program at "The Elms," the house he had occupied as Vice President. Several advisers told him the odds were 60 to 40 against passage of the Kennedy-sponsored rights bill, advised him not to risk his still uncertain prestige by pushing too hard for it. For a long moment, Johnson was silent, but then he asked: "What's the presidency for?" Obviously, to command. With his determined driving, the Senate overrode the hard core of Southern Democrats with whom Lyndon had often voted in the past...
Clark cited testimony before congressional committees which showed that racial discrimination is a nationwide problem, that Negroes are so uncertain of finding accommodations when traveling that it impairs their "pleasure and convenience" and has "the effect of discouraging travel on the part of a substantial portion" of the nation's 20 million Negroes. Observed Clark acidly: "One can hardly travel without eating...
...judges faced with the problem of defining the "dim and uncertain" line between obscenity and constitutionally protected free expression, the Supreme Court has painfully worked out a combination of three tests...
...confidence is not helped by some of the figures around Wilson, notably "the Three Cs"-Minister of Technology Frank Cousins, Minister of Housing Richard Crossman and Minister of Overseas Development Barbara Castle-all far left-wingers. Nor is confidence helped by Labor's disturbing tendency to mix its uncertain economic measures and its contradictory morals. Wilson's government, for example, halted sales of arms and aircraft to South Africa, worth millions in hard cash, to protest against apartheid-a policy also invoked by the U.S., which perhaps can better afford it. But Labor has not curbed exports...
...Colombia is still the showcase of the Alianza," says a longtime U.S. resident in Bogotá. "But it is a flyspecked showcase." Under the uncertain leadership of President Guillermo León Valencia, Colombia's chronic trade deficit has doubled, reaching a perilous $750 million; the cost of living has soared a staggering 45% ; and more than 10% of the labor force is unemployed. To top those troubles, Colombia's ruling National Front is falling apart...