Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prolonged applause that greeted him to subside, Mr. Wallace was a source of curiosity, hope, and fear to his 7,000 listeners, who were as yet unaware of the contents of his speech.. Even when his address was over many in the audience must still have been uncertain of their evaluation of this man whom one Harvard professor has called "the most profound social thinker in America," this man who has held high office and yet does not hesitate to criticize these with whom he shared power, this man who is proud to call himself "dangerous...
...sandy, sun-scorched Yucatán, men had no eyes for the hurricane that last week swept the Gulf of Mexico's other shore. They watched, instead, a storm gathering over the markets of New York. The future price of henequen, basic barometric reading in the peninsula, was uncertain. The men who grow the cactuslike plant that supplies much of the world's rope and cordage might soon have to dive for the storm cellar...
...planners for the 16 nations obediently set about to comply with Clayton's wishes. The full committee cut the estimate of dollar needs to about $17 billion, by the simple but uncertain expedient of assuming that U.S. prices would fall. France's delegate, dapper Herve Alphand, emphasized that, in any case, "the figures in our report are by no means a claim or a demand, they are merely an illustration [of what it would cost to reconstruct Western Europe...
...that game!! Mama brought all those sllck get-ups for me, the purple dress with matching glasses; that chartreuse number guaranteed to make sober men think they-ve had enough; that low-cut orange one whose method of support Is still uncertain ... One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cock-tall cogiomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...
...that game!! Mama bought all those slick get-ups for me, the purple dress with matching glasses; that chartreuse number guaranteed to make sober men think they've had enough; that low-out orange one whose method of support is still uncertain . . . One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cocktail conglomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...