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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lodge from an orphanage she aided in Saigon. The Lodges couldn't spell the breed name of the pups-Lhasa Apso. But a quick look at their genealogy showed they had the makings of ideal companions in such uncertain spots as Saigon. The intelligent, sharp-eared dogs were bred in the lamaseries around the sacred city of Lhasa, teamed with the fierce Tibetan mastiff as watch dogs. The mastiffs were chained outside while the small dogs were indoor sentinels. Only trouble is, neither Buster Brown nor Rover Boy is housebroken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Homecoming | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...honors retirement ceremony, Taylor reviewed the troops, stopping occasionally to talk with a soldier, inspected some howitzers and found them spotless. That done, he received from McNamara his third oakleaf cluster in lieu of a fourth Distinguished Service Medal. Said McNamara, borrowing the title of Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, his post-retirement analysis of U.S. defense ills: "Maxwell Taylor has never sounded an uncertain trumpet. He will always be one of the first to whom we turn with the hard tasks, the great challenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Leavetaking | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...about an attempt by a group of celebrated outsiders to buy the 50-year-old company for a walloping $700 million. Milligan and his managers are understandably apprehensive. The mechanics of the transaction are intricate, and how many of Pure Oil's present managers would stay on is uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: A Lure for Pure | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...this, a statement like that means let's dance. In no time at all, the lady appears in black chiffon to ask: "How d'ya like my widow's weeds?" As the girl eventually transformed into Rina Marlowe, a doomed Hollywood sex goddess, Actress Baker seems uncertain about which actress living or dead she is not supposed to resemble. Although her widely publicized nude scene has been disnuded, she wears costumes that thinly conceal the loss, and also delivers some of the film's funniest asides. Sinking into the horn-and-hide trappings of a limousine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low & Inside | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

This discovery soon proved to be another oversimplification. Most vegetable fats and oils cause little or no rise in blood cholesterol. So the line was drawn between animal and vegetable fats. But even that line was uncertain; it had to weave around to leave hard or saturated fats on one side and polyunsaturated fats on the other. The blubber of whales and the oil of seals and other marine mammals is polyunsaturated, so Eskimos can eat them and still keep their cholesterol low. Also polyunsaturated are the oils of fish. The fat of chickens and turkeys (unlike that of ducks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cardiology: Four Fats in the Blood: Which Cause Heart Attacks? | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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