Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ties, a Panama hat, 63 roses and congressional talk of something more substantial-a pension of $50,000 a year on retirement. After paying taxes and White House operating expenses, he had only about $4,200 left of his $75,000 yearly salary. But delivery of that gift was uncertain...
...stuck down flat, and bulks a solid 15 stone (210 lbs.). He resembles General de Gaulle, except that he does not share the look of a supercilious camel. His great tired nose droops even lower than De Gaulle's. It curls under just in time to disclose an uncertain mustachelet which changes position with each shave...
...line is long on cash (over $19 million liquid assets) and prestige, short on ships, and uncertain about the future. Before the war it confined itself to the coastal trade (the Hawaiian run was abandoned in 1917). But the war set it to operating War Shipping Administration ships all over the world. Now, with operating costs up 100%, A-H does not see how it can go back to coastal runs at present ICC-fixed rates. It is operating twelve vessels for the Maritime Commission. But this service may stop next July...
...latter work, entitled "Apparebit Repentina Dies", is based on a Latin poem of uncertain date and authorship ("before A.D. 700", said the program). This is a description in unrhymed octameter couplets of a Doomsday that recalls by its luridness the same scene as painted in the liturgical "Dies Irae." Mr. Hindemith's musical setting, though interspersed with brass interludes in his familiar fugal style, is perhaps a shade expeditious for so picturesque a subject. It trips, or rather bumps along in a jolly fashion that depicts little and scares no one; but it is distinguished music, if a bit ineffective...
Faces and days grew longer as the Foreign Ministers' Conference went into its seventh week. In the uncertain weather of a belated Moscow spring, delegates laid aside their fur-collared coats, put on trench coats or mackintoshes as delegations prepared to leave...