Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liberals were the key to what was rapidly developing into a constitutional crisis to match Britain's economic crisis. Not since 1924, when the first Labor government took office under Ramsay MacDonald as a minority government with support from the Liberals, had the political situation been so uncertain. It was possible that Queen Elizabeth could find herself in an extraordinarily awkward position for a modern constitutional monarch: deciding which party or parties would be best able to command support in the House of Commons and thus run the government. The Crown could even be dragged into an unseemly political...
...past, many graduate students stayed on for several years, preferring the benefits of steady if poorly paid work to the uncertain future of job-hunting in the stultifying academia out of which they had only recently and partially emerged. And the University, for its part, enjoyed the fruits of these inner hesitations and deliberations, namely the heart of its stable, diligent and economical teaching staff...
...except as a fiction to dress up a kidnaping for private gain. But the impact on the nation was none the less. Murphy was returned unharmed after 49 hours and two of his suspected kidnapers were promptly found and arrested, but the fate of Patricia Hearst remained agonizingly uncertain...
...Judiciary Committee thus seems certain to acquire the special prosecutor's files, although the timing is uncertain. The White House's sudden decision to cut off further compliance with Jaworski's requests for evidence could indicate that it will also resist efforts by the Judiciary Committee to get important documents. Some investigators believe that a key to prompt turnover of the evidence held by Jaworski lies in making the necessary legal moves while Sirica, who has vividly demonstrated his desire to expose the full Watergate truth, is still chief judge. He must step down on March...
...opponents. Harvard was subjected to both mental and physical abuse by a Big Green crowd that was sure its actions would help insure a Dartmouth victory. However, one must ask, victory at what cost? If sport has degenerated into war, its value to both spectators and players is uncertain...