Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite Trimble's uncertain condition and Spivak's injury, the traditional excitement that precedes any Yale contest has already reached the Varsity camp at Dillon. You can't walk five feet in the track room there without bumping into a "Beat Yale!" or "Let's keep it an undefeated season" sign. The H.A.A. has helped out, too, blanketing every bulletin board in the University with posters advertising the meet...
...would paint the portraits of all the early Presidents with this exception, and a few more strokes would answer for any member of their cabinets; but Jefferson could be painted only touch by touch, with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon the shifting and uncertain flicker of its semi-transparent shadows...
...much information about any kind of American life-except Max Eastman's own. There is endless talk of his sexual and mental characteristics-an often maudlin study which is not so much a matter of enjoyment as an involved, embarrassing account of the continuous trials & errors of an uncertain and mentally harried intellectual. The book carries Eastman from his unwanted birth ("a gloom in a minister's family") to the night when, already married and a father, but "still diffident and inexpert at the art of unfamiliar love," he found his dream girl...
...weeks before the Japs struck Pearl Harbor, the nation's defense industries were just recovering from near-paralysis; its key coal mines had been strike-shut. Last week, at another uncertain moment in history, some U.S. citizens rubbed their eyes. Were they dreaming, or were the country's mines shut again...
Even if 250 Russian divisions overran the western continent in ten days, U.S. air and naval superiority operating from this triangle would make Stalin's occupation of Western Europe a more uncertain and tenuous military asset than Hitler...