Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Subramaniam, but much of the problem lies in India's backward agriculture and age-old dietary habits. India's land produces only about half as much per acre as U.S. land, largely because of primitive farming implements and practices, lack of pesticides and fertilizer, soil exhaustion and uncertain water supply. Besides, India's burgeoning population-12 million new mouths per year-has simply outstripped the country's ability to produce enough food to feed...
M.I.T. is truly concerned with the problems of Cambridge, it should reject in no uncertain terms, any route in the Brookline-Elm St. area," Robert Goodman, member of the committee wrote Monday to James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. corporation...
Some parochial Irish critics, scandalized by McGahern's lascivious imputations against clerisy and family, have argued that his image of Ireland is false. They miss the point. The author may not be true to life but he is true to significance. He may be uncertain in technique but he is sure of what he feels and means, and he is honest in a way that is traditionally Irish. "The Irish are a fair people," Samuel Johnson wrote. "They never speak well of one another...
...foothold in the states of the old Confederacy, from whose borders it was driven nearly a century ago by the collapse of the Republican Reconstruction governments. Today the dream has come true, but the trumpet call that is summoning Southerners to the G.O.P.'s standard is at best uncertain, uncomfortably mingling racism and progressivism. Republicans in other sections of the country have had to stop and ask themselves just what kind of a new party has grown up in Dixie...
Author Auchincloss traverses this somewhat lurid ground with his customary cool style. A writer annealed by the disciplines of the law, which he still practices in Manhattan, he is incapable of setting an uncertain, unseemly or ungraceful foot. His narrative, his paragraphs and his sentences flow with smooth inevitability...