Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uncertain of the consequences of a National Liberation Front victory, and familiar with offensives by what newspapers call "their" soldiers or these soldiers' American backers, the peasants who ran last week's losing southward race against the advancing battle field lacked the objective detachment and human-interest perspectives that American papers offered their far-away readers. Maybe the discrepancy should have attracted a commentator or two, in a week when even tired reporters tried to make their stories transcend the day-to-day suffering they had detailed or ignored for years...
...military aid after they invaded Cyprus; they have threatened to close U.S. bases in Turkey. At the Ford Administration's urging, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted by a margin of 9 to 7 last week to recommend a resumption of aid to Turkey. Chances for congressional passage are uncertain. Restoration of aid would mend relations with Turkey but would further offend the Greeks. On Cyprus, both the Turkish and Greek communities are angered at the U.S. for not supporting their side...
Whether that will prove to be the case is, of course, uncertain. Economists have not been notably proficient over the past year at foreseeing the timing and severity of the recession. Nor has President Ford, who only six months ago was urging a tax increase, not a tax cut. But, despite some ill-advised provisions, the Congress has moved with unaccustomed speed and zeal to produce a tax package worthy of a trial in the marketplace. By signing the bill, the President has avoided a divisive battle with Congress that might have stirred a hot political debate but would have...
Louise, unlike most of Kaplan's other characters, just takes it all in. Other peoples' lives beckon her because, ashamed of her past and uncertain of her future, she has so little life of her own. Her self-image is wrapped up in the stigma of "craziness," so she flees from it, finding forgetfulness through absorption in the petty doings of people she scarcely knows...
...want to make it here on my own. I was uncertain, during the rating interview, if my interviewer knew who my father was. Naively, I guessed (and hoped) he didn't because for forty-five minutes he gave no indication that he might. At the end of the Interview, however, he asked me if I had any questions, but quickly added "I guess you know more about it than I do." I conceded Harvard a TKO, but in retrospect he was also probably right...