Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow, in London, in freed Rome, military men calculated the great fact of one continental war on three fronts; the fact which had ever spelled defeat to German strategists. They measured the pent-up might of the Russian hosts. They tried to analyze the first tremors in the uncertain Balkans, in what was left of German Italy, on those coasts of France and the Lowlands which were yet to be invaded, but certainly were affected by stresses placed on German arms and transport in the west...
Climaxing a steady, 96-hour bombardment, a thousand Fortresses and Liberators rained explosives, pinpointing German installations in the uncertain light...
...well worn theme of the criminal turned patriotic is always a good sound plot for the theater. It can readily be given new twists as the recent "Passage to Marseille" and the present "Uncertain Glory" show; yet the basic ingredient of heroism remains to please the public. The title of this opus is deceptive, for by the end of the picture the hero's glory is as certain as Hollywood can make it, and they have been in the hero-making business for some years...
...Grounds for the court ruling: 1) Doris Duke Cromwell had never become a bona fide resident of Nevada, even though she bought a house there; 2) the Nevada court had improperly concealed the evidence in the case. The decision made the validity of Reno divorces in other states increasingly uncertain...
...autobiography, Tomorrow Will Come, was a slight, delicate and frightening record of her first 24 years. It began with a poetic evocation of St. Petersburg, ended with her escape to Italy-a steppingstone to her home in England, where she landed in 1923, "tired, ill, and more than uncertain of the future...