Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barnett said that the Chinese people are learning that "many of Mao's stern and strident dogmas are now inapplicable," and that even Mao himself "must be uncertain today" about who his friends and enemies...
...Alabama, where Governor George Wallace is backing a slate of independent electors for next fall, Lyndon Johnson faces an uncertain future. But after last week, if Lady Bird were running, there would be no doubt whatever about the outcome...
...capacity to deal with crises. And as crises flashed across the map like fireflies on a hot night-as Viet Nam got messier and Charles de Gaulle frostier--that critical impression of Johnson made it seem all the more apparent that his grasp on the reins was too uncertain...
...Uncertain Women. The pills work, in effect, by fooling the body into behaving as though ovulation has taken place when it actually has not. On the fifth day of her cycle, when a woman's system would normally be building up hormones to promote ovulation, she takes the first of her progestin pills, and she takes one daily for the next 20 or 21 days. By some biochemical magic not yet understood, the progestin makes it impossible for a follicle to ripen and spill out an ovum. It also prepares the lining of the uterus for menstruation...
...length of time that a woman can continue taking the pills safely is still uncertain. FDA has set the recommended limit for Enovid and Ortho-Novum at four years, and of Enovid-E at three years, though it is holding the newest pills to two years for the present. There has been some speculation that long-term use of the pills might postpone the menopause and leave women fertile far beyond nature's normal age limit of 45 to 50. But women who were nearing the menopause when they started on the pills several years ago have since...