Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their schools to reaffirm their faith in education as the bread and meat of U. S. democracy. It was American Education Week, and its slogan this year was "Education for the Common Defense." Visitors saw much flag-saluting, heard much anthem-singing. But beyond that, they found educators confused, uncertain what had to be done. Disquieting to progressives was a Spartan trend toward calisthenics instead of games, military drill for boys, more homework, less music...
Dick Harlow thought that MacKinney, with only one afternoon of scrimmage at the quarterback post under his belt, was a bit uncertain on his blocking and shoved George Helden into the breach at the end of the first quarter. The MacKinney experiment will be continued this week, however, in the hope of finding a way to set the ball moving. . . . Princeton tried a pass play with Rose throwing the ball for the first time this year. Rose started off to his left and was about to throw a left-handed pass to two unguarded mates deep in Harvard territory when...
...hate, The People. In it he described French society as a series of mutually ferocious classes. The debt-ridden peasant envies the factory worker. The factory worker envies the skilled worker. The skilled worker has "bourgeois aspirations." The bank-ridden bourgeois drives his workers, hates them as the uncertain element in production. The workers hate the foreman. The merchant hates his customers. The leisure class hates everybody, lives in constant fear of communism...
Into this gritty, parched, uncertain warfare Italy and Britain were plunged deep last week. This campaign, which the British seemed inclined to treat as comic opera and the Italians as the biggest thing since Julius Caesar, was potentially as important to World War II as the still possible invasion of the United Kingdom by the Germans...
Plans Are Uncertain...