Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left the country last weekend for Panama. Early Saturday, the Shah with his family boarded an Air Force jet at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and flew to the Canal Zone, ending his 54-day stay in the U.S. Just where the Shah would live was uncertain. U.S. officials mentioned the lush resort island of Contadora off Panama's Pacific coast. But Luz Maria Quijano de Murray, Panamanian consul general in Philadelphia, said the Shah will be given asylum for three months on Coi-bita Island, also off the Pacific coast. The arrangement, she added, "could...
...constitution that grants all power to Khomeini, but that was enough to inspire a threatening Khomeini mob to surround his house and kill one of his guards. So the battle began, and within a short time Khomeini's officials had been driven from Tabriz. Khomeini has been uncertain how to fight back. At first, he tried words. In a rhetorical broadside, he castigated the rebels as "mere heathens, foreign-led agents whose dossiers are in our hands." He tried to rally the Azerbaijanis to his anti-American crusade. Said he: "Now that we are at war with the great...
...residents, still jittery over the assassination of President Park Chung Hee last October, learned that the sudden military maneuvering was not only an unexpected new twist to the Park case, but the opening of an ominous power struggle among top generals that could further jeopardize the country's uncertain political future. A terse announcement over government radio stated that Army Chief of Staff General Chung Seung Hwa, 53-effectively the country's senior officer in his capacity as martial law commander-had been arrested "in connection with the plot" against Park. Ten other generals were also arrested; they...
...they not been created by one of the leading modernist sculptors, they would not command much attention on their plain aesthetic merits. Most of the work from the late '30s and early '40s is pastiche of one sort or another: a heavy line, now dogmatic, now uncertain, grinding across the paper, paying its digestive homages to Picasso, Gonzalez, constructivism generally and, rather surprisingly, to the bonelike figures of Moore and Arp. One of the ear lier drawings is a hole-in-the-head figure clearly derived from Moore, whose own interest in totems would presently be assimilated...
...that I could best serve the cause of antifascism by joining him in his work for the Russians." It seemed to him at the time, Blunt explained, that the Communist Party and the Soviet Union "constituted the only firm bulwark against fascism, since the Western democracies were taking an uncertain and compromising attitude toward Germany...