Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat's initiative has already had a small but discernible impact at the United Nations, that uncertain barometer of the global mood. Egyptian Ambassador Esmat Abdel Meguid walked out during an anti-Sadat diatribe by his Syrian colleague, though he later cast Egypt's vote for a Syrian-inspired resolution condemning Israel's occupation of Arab lands. During the debate he smiled and nodded through a speech by Israel's Chaim Herzog. In his address, Abdel Meguid had said, "Let us have a fifth battle for peace," referring to four previous wars between Israel...
Fortunately, this gender confusion can usually be corrected with sex-hormone therapy and delicate surgery. Because the treatment is seldom reversible, a mistake in picking the proper gender can have disastrous consequences in later life. Thus, doctors are often uncertain about which sexual direction to take, especially with patients who are too young to have developed any sexual identity. Now a sophisticated new test is available to help doctors make that crucial decision. In using the technique, devised by Immunologists Stephen Wachtel, Gloria Koo and their colleagues at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, doctors ignore external sexual...
...orders us out of the house, then goes to bed. We take him seriously and make plans to depart. Nonsense, we are told by his granddaughter, he doesn't really mean it, Tomorrow he will be fine, he won't even remember what he said. Still, we are uncertain. It seems ungrateful to stay in someone's house after he tells you to leave. Besides, we are afraid of him. So help me, we decide to spend the night in the suite above his garage. We tell ourselves that we wish to avoid awakening him in the morning by stumbling...
WHEN SOME EX-LINEBACKER comes up to you in Tommy's Lunch at three in the morning and demands a bite of your cheese steak do you tell him, in no uncertain terms, "With or without mustard?" You've got lots of company if you're the kind of person who walks away from a fight. Most of us hum along with Elton but stay clear of Father's on a Saturday night. So maybe if a townie leans out his car window to inquire, "Move it, ya Hahvahd queah!" you pretend not to notice. But you move it--silently...
...even then, Lady Luck reared her ugly head. Several Crimson runners, uncertain of the course, ran more than they were supposed to. The score should have been much closer than the 17-40 official tally...