Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amman, the capital, and Scott flew off to Beirut with his notes while Flamini continued to cover the fighting between Jordanian troops and guerrilla insurgents. The two correspondents' plan called for Scott to return as soon as possible so that Flamini could leave and file his reports. Uncertain transmission facilities in Jordan made the awkward hand-carrying procedure essential...
...problem out of the tangle of events." Roosevelt's weaknesses in international dealings showed most obviously later, in his attempts to handle Joseph Stalin-but they were evident almost from the beginning. Convinced that the fall of Britain would be a disaster for the U.S., he seemed uncertain about what he could or should do to prevent it. Burns describes F.D.R. making up his mind bit by bit, never getting too far ahead of most of his own constituents; indeed, the White House was desperately scanning public-opinion polls long before that practice became a norm of presidential behavior...
...violent attack by the Weathermen on the CFIA. On September 25 a group of about 25 persons, none of them Harvard students, invaded the Center, roughed up staff members and employees, and fled after fifteen minutes. Because the attack came so early in the year many people were uncertain about just who the Weathermen were and how strong they were. University officials braced for a violent year. The Weathermen, of course, are a tiny splinter group of SDS and have not reappeared at Harvard since the CFIA action. But the issue of CFIA remains...
...world of violence, deceit and coercive evil-to experience which, most regrettably, you have not had to wait to go outside-wishing in my turn to be helpful I would first pray for you clarity of vision. Then in a period as troubled and uncertain as any in our history, echoing my predecessors' words. I would say something quite similar to what has been said here so many times in the past, urging you not, from a feeling of helplessness, either to surrender to rage or to succumb to self-pity, but rather to go forth and be strong. Beyond...
Health officials are still uncertain how the epidemic got its start. The first confirmed outbreak occurred a month ago in the Soviet port of Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea, where 352 cases have been reported. At about the same time, El Tor also cropped up in Egypt. After that, the disease spread rapidly, partly as an unhappy dividend from the Middle East conflict. Soviet sailors returning from Egyptian ports may have carried El Tor to the Soviet Black Sea ports of Odessa and Kerch, where 101 cases have been reported. More recently, the disease has cropped up in Jordan, Iraq...