Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With some justification, the report accused the Democratic Administrations of having pursued so uncertain a policy as to provide "a basis for miscalculation by the Communists. Policy has been altered abruptly. Conflicting statements have been issued. Deeds have not matched words." Johnson's 1964 campaign oratory, it added, encouraged further miscalculation...
...left with nobody to hate, nobody to love. "I am gone, she thought; they have taken me with them; I shall never return." Few readers will miss her. In her fifth novel, Elizabeth Spencer (The Light in the Piazza) demonstrates a delicate attention to the shifting, uncertain boundaries between illusion and reality. But her characters are merely attitudes or intuitions, and her sensibility a romantic smog that muffles all the harsh realities the author and her heroine cannot bear to face...
Nervous and emotional, uncertain and perhaps a bit illogical, the stock market lost another $8 billion in paper values last week. Small investors sold more shares than they bought; big institutions stuffed their steadily rising funds into safer, short-term Treasury bills or corporate bonds and just waited. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell for four days in a row, struggled up just a bit in the final session, and closed at 864-down 16½ points for the week.* Everybody on Wall Street was waiting for news from Washington and looking for a firmer fix on three uncertainties that...
...right moment to stampede. In some of the wildest, tensest and heaviest trading in years, the Dow-Jones industrial index last week rallied 35 points in the final four trading sessions. The close: 875.16, a gain of 21 points for the week. The market was so emotional and uncertain that not even the bravest bulls felt sure about how long or strong the rally ultimately would be, but there it was-a welcome change...
...week announced that more Americans than ever-20 million in all, or three times as many as 13 years ago-now own stock. The fact was impressive, but few cheers were heard on Wall Street. Reason: not many of the 20 million seemed to be doing any buying. Confused, uncertain and frequently just plain listless, the stock market drifted down for the sixth straight week, sold off heavily on one day and closed the week with a loss of 24.75 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average. At 854.42, the market had reached its lowest point in ten months...