Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press side to present Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan told the Crimson yesterday he expects Brennan to be leaving soon and that Dunlop will be nominated shortly, but exactly when is uncertain...
...growing number of pre-law students I know now make pretensions to helping the oppressed obtain their rights as the main reason for their following the road to the courts; rather, they say they are trying to find some certainty in an uncertain future. Nor do the swelling ranks of pre-meds talk so loudly about opening a clinic in a ghetto neighborhood and improving health care for the poor, or starting a practice in a rural community without a doctor, most would rather keep with the trend and stay in the more lucrative urban and suburban areas...
...them up." There were other similarities: many of the women victims were forced to disrobe; sexual assault or molestation was always threatened and often carried out; the robbers always stole jewelry and money; and because of the youth's long hair, many of the victims were uncertain at first whether he was a boy or girl. The man, much like the infamous Boston Strangler, liked to tie his victims on a bed and toy with them. Once, in a particularly perverted scene, he commanded the boy to rape a woman; the boy could...
...that were slipping). The new title is an example of truth in advertising, for the brothers' opening broadcast contained no comedy. A few expectant chuckles ac companied Tommy's prologue-mono logue about the inverse relation between the Smothers' fortunes and Richard Nixon's. His uncertain promise that they were going to be good boys and stay away from politics raised hopes that wickedness might win out and they would at least tell a Jerry Ford joke or something. No such luck- just a succession of laughless sketches, totally lacking any link with an identifiable aspect...
...Failures. Knowledgeable Soviet-affairs experts in Washington and European capitals prudently dismiss the swirling speculation that Brezhnev's uncertain health presages his imminent retirement or a stage-managed ouster by his Kremlin competitors. Unless it is proved that Brezhnev is mortally ill, they believe that he will remain in office at least until the 1976 Communist Party Congress when, as one British foreign office expert put it, he might choose to bow out "in a spasm of glory...