Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Millis described it, America's trip down the road to World War I was something like a blind deaf-mute's stumbling down a dark country lane on a foggy night. So far, our policy in the present European war has been just as dim and uncertain. There have been a few specific actions on the part of the Roosevelt Administration, but no one knows just what basic policy is behind them. If the 1940 campaign doesn't throw light on the situation, it will be just about impossible to vote intelligently...
...Freshmen open their season at Belmont this afternoon against M.I.T. The Crimson first-year men are of an uncertain quality so far, having played only once or twice this spring...
...last week, "has added a new word to the English language. . . . Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous. Visually it has the supreme merit of beginning with a Q, which (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British mind to be a crooked, uncertain and slightly disreputable letter, suggestive of the questionable, the querulous, the quavering of quaking quagmires and quivering quicksands, of quibbles and quarrels, of queasiness, quackery, qualms and quilp...
...uncertain affections, his age, his gradual loss of power ("They were planned so big and red; yetthey are small irons, and they hardly glow") he tells no less serenely. "I have followed the septuagenarian of literature step by step, and reported the progress of his disintegration." He ends his book with a quiet, magnificent diatribe which should make most readers duck, most smug old men-of-letters blush...
Married. Warren K. Billings, 46, whose life sentence (with Thomas Joseph Mooney) for the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco was commuted last October; and Josephine Rudolph, 43, who met him during one of his many court hearings; in Reno, Nev. (because his status in California was uncertain...