Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avowed liberal who subtlely but effectively discriminates in business and personal affairs. This group includes a wide range: from the executive who won't hire Negroes to the lower-middle class homeowner who is desperately insecure about his status, and opposes Negroes buying homes on his street. It is uncertain here too whether those store owners who displayed pictures of Kennedy in their windows will heed his exhortations, and those of his successor...
...combines an understanding of the railroads' plight with a sympathy for the workers involved. Useless positions must be abolished, but the men now holding those positions must also be considered. The rail unions' exercise in self-interest hurts the labor movement generally at a time when it faces an uncertain future. By stubbornly resisting a series of impartial decisions, the railroad Brotherhoods serve neither their cause, management's needs nor the country's interest...
When they headed for Moscow everyone was uncertain about the reception they might receive there-the Soviets, typically, had agreed to no advance appointments. But at the Moscow Airport there were instant signs that the Kremlin was deeply interested in the visit. The businessmen were told that Chairman Khrushchev had agreed to a meeting the next day, and the airport was crowded with greeters, waitresses serving Russian brandy and champagne, and aides ready to whisk the group through the airport bureaucracy with unheard-of courtesy and efficiency. And it was immediately clear the Russians thought that since these were businessmen...
...Hughes and Spock are elected, they will replace Norman Cousins of the Saturday Review and Clarence Pickett, former director of the American Friends Service Committee. Dr. Spock was uncertain how long his term of office would be. "I think the present co-chairmen have been in there almost since SANE began," he said. "I imagine you retire when you can find someone to replace you. If it's like other things, you get out when...
...rides, just before starting to write a paper, before a large amount of studying, after coming home from a mediocre date, before going to bed, or during a long afternoon in the dormitory. A junior said she found herself eating a great deal during the week she was terribly uncertain about her academic future...