Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irina Baranova is an accomplished ballerina, although on opening night she was nervous and a trifle uncertain in her movements. To throw a few orchids, the chorus numbers are capably danced and fast-paced and Howard Bay's sets are ingenious and attractive...
Willkie had perhaps split the Utah delegation; friendly Washington is still uncertain. In Portland, he announced his entrance into the Oregon primary. The most significant result might follow his luncheon with California's Governor Earl Warren, the most potent Western GOPolitico. If Wendell Willkie could snare Earl Warren's support, the whole West might fall into his hands...
...wool growers' anxiety was understandable. The wool was imported, mainly from Australia and South Africa, to protect the textile industry against uncertain supplies. Woolen cloth production had spurted; the demand for wool jumped from 650 million lb. in 1941 to over 1 billion lb. in 1943. Since U.S. wool production is only 450 million lb. a year, heavy imports and a comfortable stockpile were necessary. But despite record consumption the stockpile of wool still remains large enough to supply the entire U.S. textile industry for a full year at its anticipated 1944 rate of production...
...uncertain mules moved off to their olive groves. The men in the road seemed reluctant to leave. They stood around, and gradually I could sense them moving, one by one, close to Captain Waskow's body...
...actual strength is unknown; national reactions to outside pressure are always uncertain. But, a total embargo against Argentina might interrupt the happy moneymoon of prosperity, make the present regime intensely unpopular, force Peron from power-unless it infuriated the proud Argentines, turned them still further away from...