Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little towns like Martin, Tenn., and Benton, Ark., the wiry 76-year-old stopped his plodding Chevrolet and got out to visit with the villagers. He talked their language, quoted their Bible, knew their crops and brought news to them from neighboring towns. In his notes and in his uncertain camera, he imprisoned a homely record that dealt with horses, people, auctions, and little girls who raise rabbits. When he had enough of a haul, he headed home to St. Louis and his desk at Joseph Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch...
...clear that the political factor was the deciding one, but the uncertain international situation had also weighed heavily. Now the Crossroads' chiefs wondered whether their big show would ever come off, or whether it might not be tabled sine...
...last, long-drawn-out day of Frankie's childhood is highlighted not by a picture show, but by one of the few dramatic incidents in the novel-Frankie's narrow escape from a drunken soldier. The rest of The Member of the Wedding is devoted to an uncertain child's private meanderings through a stewing hot summer day, when the old ways and excitements have ceased to have meaning, and the most familiar streets and houses have lost their familiar look; when the ear catches nothing but sounds that are incomplete, and the eye is deceived...
...said the rubber committee: "The security of the U.S. and the essential needs of its citizens must never again be jeopardized by inadequate or uncertain rubber supplies." Consequently, it recommends that 1) natural rubber should be stockpiled, and 2) sufficient synthetic rubber capacity to meet at least one-third of U.S. rubber requirements (roughly 250,000 tons) should be kept in operation "regardless of cost." Plants capable of producing another 350,000 tons should be kept in stand-by condition...
What audiences would make of Jane's films was still uncertain. The two pictures offered a wide choice. Young Widow, a sentimental wartime domestic drama with incidental stretches of comedy, was overwhelmingly Jane-in mourning, in love, in various stages of dress and undress. In The Outlaw, Oldtimers Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston did their sly best with the saga of Billy the Kid. Jane, as a sulky, sexy, persistently semiclad half-breed, had a relatively minor part...