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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although subsequent searches have not produced any spiders, Levi is still uncertain. "We haven't found any since, [but] it's hard for me to believe the last one's gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Spider in the Hand... | 3/2/1971 | See Source »

...Egyptian pilots, may also have conducted bombing missions with AN-12 transports and two squadrons of TU-16 medium bombers. The Russians, in addition, are known to have carried out MIG training missions in the north, but whether they have flown MIGs into combat in the south is uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: The Soviet Viet Nam | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...merely that in London, as a nearly unknown singer-composer of uncertain stability, he miraculously won a record contract with Apple. What really mattered was that there he met 24-year-old Peter Asher. At the time, Asher, an Englishman and a former rock performer (Peter and Gordon), had just been installed as Apple's chief talent director. He recognized Taylor's talent, signed him, then helped push the first Taylor album to completion despite the fact that Apple was beginning to come apart at the core. Asher was responsible for the fact that a year later Taylor was able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: James Taylor: One Man's Family of Rock | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...last through autumn. This may be precisely why he will." What he meant was that after five governments in 27 months, warring factions in the four-party governing coalition might let things ride for a while. If Colombo, too, were to topple, the result might be expensive and uncertain national elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Trying to Take Wing | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...years before he died in 1953 at the age of 83, John Marin was voted "the greatest living American painter" by a poll of critics and museum men. What the cranky, salt-bitten old Yankee thought of this honor is uncertain. Marin loathed the idea that art should become a monument, freezing its maker in the pose of a culture hero. "Art is not great," he once scribbled in that looping hand with which he covered innumerable scraps of paper with misspelled, queerly punctuated aphorisms. "Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fugues in Space | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

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