Word: uncertainity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bitter and uncertain aftermath of the steel episode, the nation has been waiting to discover how John Kennedy would deal with business in the future...
...that the government has threatened to cancel a handsome contract with the Louis Bregeut Aeronautical Works-which Floirat owns; that Monaco, which has a 5% stockholding in Europe Number One, has been urged to sell it to France. How long Europe Number One can endure the governmental siege is uncertain. But while it does, 14 million Frenchmen presumably will go on listening...
...know about music; she knew the oldest and the latest music, pre-Bach and post-Stravinsky, and knew it cold.... I am convinced that it is Mlle. Boulanger's perceptivity as a musician that is at the core of her teaching. She is able to grasp the still uncertain contour of an incomplete sketch, examine it, and fore-tell the probable and possible ways in which it may be developed. She is expert in picking flaws in any work in progress, and knowing why they are flaws...
...President James Perkins has sent a letter to Gov. Volpe protesting the passage of the bill. He notes its uncertain path through the legislature and asserts that "plans of municipal government should be considered only at municipal elections, when the voters of a city are undistracted by national or state issues...
Manhattanites are cliffdwellers by choice as well as necessity. Somehow, apartment living best expresses the basic personality-and impersonality-of the city. Its inhabitants are the young on the way up, the successful who were born somewhere else, the uncertain, the transitory, and the ambitious who are aware that further success (or new failure) may dictate a sudden change in their whole way of life. For the rich (who generally have several other places elsewhere), an apartment is a kind of permanently rented hotel suite. For seekers of anonymity or those who merely hope to be rich, the city apartment...