Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worse before it gets better. Among other things, Zambia's political decision to stop shipping copper through Rhodesia creates a bottleneck that may by year's end leave 150,000 tons of Zambian copper awaiting transport. To copper producers, the great danger is that higher prices and uncertain supplies may cause copper users to switch rather than fight...
...losing more troops, and they will have to stop before we do." Quester said that the Viet Cong had been expecting a military victory, and that the reversal will probably cause hem to lose the momentum they have had until now. But he admitted that prospects still remain uncertain...
...they are prescribed by a pediatrician, they almost always boast the kind of label that assures a cautious parent he is doing right by his child. The fine print spells out "Minimum Daily Requirements" in esoteric quantities such as milligrams, U.S.P. or international units, and the average uncertain layman usually decides that if a little is good, more is surely better. The business in vitamin and mineral supplements to the U.S. food budget has grown to hundreds of millions of dollars a year...
...condition of Bill Stempson and Dick Howe is uncertain now, but Jim Baker will not figure in the scoring at all. And against a solid squad like the Huskies, just the loss of Baker could be fatal...
Does the U.S. need heroes? Not in the sense of the man on the white horse who will take care of everything. To the uncertain, sheer conviction-right or wrong-is a kind of relief. This is what makes "heroes" out of the Hitlers, the Stalins, and even the Joe McCarthys. Adlai Stevenson, who is a hero of the intellectuals, knew the difference. Reaching back to Cicero in comparing himself to Jack Kennedy, he noted ruefully, "When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke'-but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said...