Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town's power went dead. In the uncertain light of car headlights and flashlights, in the drenching rain, in the flickering light of the fires which broke out, Woodward's citizens tore at the debris of their shattered homes, looking for wives, children, husbands. One-third of the town had been destroyed. Three thousand were homeless. Mrs. Grim and 90 others were dead...
Pauline herself seemed uncertain about the distinction between pro and amateur. Said she: "The question is, when does a person become a professional? How do I know that it is worthwhile unless someone looks into...
...department of bio-chemical sciences offers a convenient means of satisfying both requirements for a degree and the basic requisites for admission to medical school at one stroke, but the man who is uncertain about a medical career runs the danger of finding himself as a senior able to carry on an enlightened conversation in most of the branches of the physical and biological sciences without possessing enough specialized training to put his knowledge to work without further preparation...
...tide goes up and down," said De Gaulle. "Perhaps it is in the course of nature that a period of clear and gigantic efforts should be followed by a period of obscure fumbling. But times are too difficult, life too uncertain, the world too hard to enable one to vegetate too long in the darkness without risk of succumbing." Then De Gaulle lashed out against the French parliamentary system and the new constitution. Said he: "The day is coming when, rejecting sterile games and reforming the badly built framework of the country . . . the immense mass of the French will rally...
...leading spirit of Sinking-in-the-Ooze is the Heart Throb himself, a small-voiced, nervous bloke with a laugh as scratchy and uncertain as a wrong key at a lock. Barker's scenes with his designing secretary (played by his wife, Pearl) often carry off the show. "There," says Pearl, "two eyes looking at you so tenderly, two soft arms offering you something you can't possibly resist." Barker: "Camembert!" Pearl: "No, Love!" Barker (with a quivery laugh): "Steady, Barker...