Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ugly steel-mill town of Gary, Ind. one day last week, hundreds of pupils' clustered excitedly outside Emerson school, a little uncertain what to do next. They were on strike. In a locked room inside, School Superintendent Charles D. Lutz pleaded with the members of the Emerson "Golden Tornado" football team. He figured that they could end the strike if anyone could: like most U.S. schools, Emerson is full of boys whose chief interest in life is football, and girls whose chief interest is boys who play football...
Great Expectations. Rife with old suspicions and enmities, tired, discouraged and uncertain of their leaders, the miners were in a sense symbolic of all Britons. "Never," said the Times of London in its grimmest attack on the Government to date, "has a ministry fallen so far short of pent-up expectations as Mr. Attlee's Government." The people of Britain, added the News Chronicle, "are tired of walking downhill in the dark...
...shortages; TIME'S London Bureau last week cabled: "Britain's net situation is as nearly hopeless as any undestroyed and undefeated nation's can be." The U.S., a powerhouse of farm and factory production, had reluctantly assumed the political leadership of the West. Its steps were uncertain, its destiny only dimly understood by its own restless people...
...much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties." The man who rushed off to a brothel on hearing of his mother's death "was both cocksure and uncertain of himself; painfully self-searching yet comically self-deluded; a Tory in his beliefs and an anarchist in his behavior; unable to curb any of his physical cravings, yet capable of the stupendous discipline needed to complete the Life; romantic about love yet rakish about women; an inflexible snob and a born mixer...
Boswell: "Morality appears to me an uncertain thing. For instance, I would like to have thirty women. Could I not satisfy that desire...