Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordered her to marry him. He pursued her across the sea to Geel, where, insane with incestuous lust, he beheaded her. He instantly recovered his sanity, thereby es tablishing Dympna's reputation as a virgin martyr with powers to cure the mad. The date of her canonization is uncertain, but in the 13th century a chapel in Geel was named for her. Mentally afflicted pilgrims to the chapel soon overflowed the small lodge built to house them, and the Geeloise peasants, cannily combining religious devotion with thrift, began to take the pilgrims as boarders...
...midst of ceremony, even the modest amount included in this trip. If there was not charm, there was simplicity. If there was not sophistication, there was common sense and decency. He created no jealousies, taxed no one's ingenuity. He was a little clumsy but sincere, a little uncertain but determined. At the end, some uneasiness crept into the atmosphere; with Charles de Gaulle, he seemed not fully confident of himself...
...cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times a normal crop. All told, the Israeli government has invested nearly $500,000 in Kallia's uncertain political future...
While President Nixon prepared for his swing through the capitals of Western Europe, Eastern Europe last week marked a melancholy milestone. Six months have passed since Warsaw Pact tanks rumbled into Czechoslovakia, but Communism's East Bloc still remains uneasy and uncertain...
...friends. Three weeks ago they agreed to exchange ambassadors. Last week, after twelve days divided between business negotiations and Latin hospitality, representatives of both nations gathered at Lima's graceful Torre Tagle Palace to sign a two-year trade agreement. The precise products and terms are so far uncertain; the Soviet Union, through European middlemen, is already purchasing sizable quantities of Peruvian fishmeal. But the meaning of the event was clear. Peru's Foreign Minister, Eduardo Mercado Jarrín, one of a spangle of generals who seized power last October, called the occasion...