Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exactly how many would vote these convictions at Atlantic City was still uncertain: U.A.W. men, like all political convention delegates, follow the crowd; and some of the most influential of their leaders had still to pass the word. To the rank & file the key play hung on the question: what will Addes do? If George Addes, who has begun to feel a certain amount of admiration for Reuther's recent accomplishments, followed it up by backing the U.A.W.'s redhead, Thomas was out, and Reuther...
...from-crowded Chicago Arena, blond Figure-Skater Gretchen Merrill did the "change loop," the "three change three," the "back bracket change bracket." Five judges, stooping over the ice, solemnly scrutinized her "print" for signs of cramped, uncertain or distorted figures. Then their decisions were tabulated and averaged. The verdict: Boston's 20-year-old Gretchen was still the best. It was her fourth national...
...tiny Hartsville, S.C. (pop. 5,000), Dr. William Egleston worried over an infantile paralysis patient. Uncertain how to treat the disease-then (1924) relatively unexplored-Dr. Egleston, general practitioner, sent off a letter to a prominent polio victim, asking his advice...
...food, raw materials and machinery during the next five years of reconstruction. But neither their leaders nor the man on the Clapham omnibus, however much their nation needed the dollars, liked the terms on which it got them.. Those at the top did not want to face an uncertain free-trade future. Arch-Imperialist Robert Boothby had orated in the Commons debate: ". . . One mandate which His Majesty's Government never got from the people . . . was to sell the British Empire for a packet of [American] cigarets." The man in the street cared less for Empire than...
...remained for mild, uncertain Lewis Clark to toss the year's toughest talk into the labor debate. When the Government seized the packing plants last week, to end a nine-day-old strike, Lewis Clark shouted: "A complete double cross. . . . The President of the U.S. has engaged in a strikebreaking action, the sole effect of which can be to play into the hands of the packers...