Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had risked Egypt to aid the Greeks, lost 15,000 men in a hopeless, 24-day retreat. But the Greeks, who also fought bravely, have starved and died for three years. Resentment against British political policies has grown. Whether food and medicine would win them back was still uncertain...
...august London Times last week of the feat of U.S. Army Lieut. Samuel ("Sammy") Wallace Magill, who, with only 30 men, captured 20,000 Germans and their general in France (TIME. Sept 25). Continued the Times: "The pity is that the exact psychological method . . . remains for the moment uncertain...
...Bulgarians] want to be treated as a cobelligerent, but so far as Great Britain is concerned they must work their passage for a long time and in no uncertain fashion before we can accord them a special status, in view of the injuries our Allies in Greece and Yugoslavia sustained at their hands. Meanwhile, let them march and destroy all the Germans they can find in enemy lands. We do not want them in the lands of the Allies...
...pathetically looking for guidance. Impartially they read Communist, Socialist, Vatican, Monarchist or Republican papers-anything that might offer a glimmer of light. A generation of corrupt Fascism, months of brutal German occupation, sapped their capacity to think for themselves. Italians were the children of a dead past, facing an uncertain future. In bewilderment they asked: "What will Britain do? Russia? Above all, what will America do?" They never asked: "What will...
...mayor was installed with Renaissance pomp & pageantry (see cut). Italy was also a land going into a climactic winter for which it had not enough of anything. Romans used to burn 120,000 kilowatts daily; now they were getting 30,000, and even that was dependent on an uncertain coal supply. There were not even enough candles to give everybody more than one a month. The departing Germans had driven away in the busses and there was power to run street cars only at rush hour. Southern Italy had lost half its cattle. Leather was practically unobtainable. But with inadequate...