Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislation, of bringing order out of the normal Congressional chaos seemed to have broken down. Too many Congressmen frankly took the view that Harry Truman did not mean everything he said and that therefore all his proposals did not need serious attention. And in Congress itself the Democratic leadership, uncertain of its aims, had broken down. It could be stopped or beaten by almost any coalition -and almost always...
...Reorganization bill, which six months ago asked for powers to streamline the overlapping, bureau-ridden executive branches of the war government, finally inched past the Senate. But its final form was still uncertain. Both the Senate and the House had made changes that galled the President (e.g., the Senate wanted to exempt the Maritime Commission from reorganization; the House wanted to exempt the Veterans Administration). Now the bill would have to go back to a joint conference for further chewing...
When the Harlowmen leave the field tomorrow they will have conquered or been conquered by the "informal" bugaboo that has been trailing them all season. Uncertain as to their own potentialities, they will face a Yale team that has been paraded up and down the sports pages of the East. Perhaps the Crimson can take heart from the 10 to 3 victory of 1919, first year of formal football for Harvard after a three-year lapse during the last...
...food is precious. Housing is short. Shanghai's 200,000 Jewish refugees are still in the Hongkew quarter and a few have to live in refugee camps. Of all Shanghailanders, Jews face the most uncertain future. They dream of America in the same way as devout Americans dream of paradise...
This irritated Captain Wellings; in fact, he considered it an attack on his person and he called editor Smith down for the article in no uncertain terms. For a while it looked as though Smith might be kicked off the paper, but Dean Nicholas McD. McKnight and others intervened and the cooler heads prevailed...