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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buckley's unorthodox campaign seems to be winniing him votes--as many as 18 per cent of the electorate, according to one poll. But much of Buckley's following is fairly uncertain and may vote instead for one of the candidates who has a chance of winning...

Author: By Michael D. Barone and Daniel J. Singal, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: Polls Open: PR Faces Crucial Vote; Lindsay Favored | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

...Russians plainly could not let this statement go by unchallenged, and reportedly told Castro so in no uncertain terms. "When Guevara got back to Havana last March," says an observer in Cuba, "Castro called him in and the two had it out on the subject." They disappeared for a week. Then Castro popped up. Guevara has not been seen or heard from since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Petrified Forest | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

Although the outcome of their $20,000 discrimination suit against Hayes-Bickford is still uncertain, chances are that the case can procede without further difficulty now that Uchenna Nwosu '64 and Femi Okuorounnu '63 have been located...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nigerians Found; Suit to Proceed | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

Only three of Radcliffe's nine watchmen will be retained. The futures of the other six seem uncertain. Britton said last night that two definitely would be offered positions within the college, but would not describe these positions. He said that there "may or may not be opportunities for the others...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh and Maxine S. Paisner, S | Title: Labor Dispute Seems Imminent for 'Cliffe | 10/7/1965 | See Source »

American ways of thinking and being were as fluid and uncertain as the American frontier. Boorstin explores them in an erudite and eloquent essay on the American gift of gab. With verbacious vitality, the growing American language devoured Indian, Dutch, German, Spanish, French and Negro words. Others were invented (caucus, lynch-law, squatter), improvised (sockdolager, spondulix, absquatulate), and embellished (kerflop, kerthump, kersouse). The general exuberance also burst out in political oratory and tall talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Growth of Identity | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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