Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, Pusey stated, the Corporation has decided to make civil defense planning an "administrative responsibility" by appointing a full-time civil defense officer. The officer's primary task will be to pay attention to government civil defense programs and study possible Harvard responses to them. Because government plans are uncertain, Pusey said, the University could not come out with a clear-cut policy decision on civil defense preparations...
...Brussels sprouts and lumpy "brown Windsor" soup that have turned passengers' stomachs for decades. Plans to demolish London's dark, satanic Euston Station have stirred protests that read as if the bulldozers were marching on Buckingham Palace. Britain's trains, in fact, are not markedly more uncertain, uncomfortable or unwashed than railways the world over, but Englishmen like to think they...
...which had supported Frondizi and had hoped to make Argentina a showcase for the Alliance for Progress, was in a quandary. How deep was obvious from President Kennedy's answer to a question at his press conference: "Well, I think the events there are still uncertain, and now from the reports still not clear enough, and I think, therefore, it would be unwise, lacking that kind of precise information, for us to make comment at this time on the events in another country." A top State Department official interpreted: "We're waiting to see what happens." Ecuador & Peru...
...often says. "This li'l ol' Kentucky preacher boy made good, and all the credit goes to God." The conviction that "God is real has carried Dr. Billington from one triumph to another since he came to Akron. A square-built six-footer, he recalls an uncertain beginning back in Kentucky, where he smoked and drank in the pool halls of Paducah. He quit drinking in 1924, when he became a Christian, and quit smoking in 1927. when his son was born. When prayer ("Dear Lord, if you will let my dear baby Chuckie live") saved...
...gathers, is both rationed and ridiculous in the welfare state, and so, apparently, are plots. Nevertheless, the profligate is not without honor in Britain; Only Two Can Play is currently breaking box-office records there. Its success is understandable. Based on a bestselling novel (That Uncertain Feeling) by Kingsley Amis, the script releases plenty of low-pressure fizz and an occasional slow leak of wit ("I was plowing through your novel the other day," the hero murmurs sweetly to an author he detests. "We have an unsigned first edition-they're the rare ones, aren't they...