Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock, when the party was supposed to end, attendants had to circulate around murmuring "please, please," to guests reluctant to call it a day. "Please what?" asked one uncertain lady; "you mean please go away?" "Please!" said the waiter...
...Next day a U.P. dispatch from Damascus said that the Mufti was in Syria, at a meeting of the Arab League called to resist the Anglo-U.S. plan for transferring 100,000 European Jews to Palestine. But the U.P. later admitted that the Mufti's whereabouts were uncertain, and the Syrian Government denied that he had entered by air or through any frontier post. The Arab world looked like a crafty hen sitting on an egg-an egg which they would disclose in due time...
...crew, he said. (Shipping experts said ten.) As for costs, what about profits operators made during the war? Snarled Bridges: "What happened to $8 billion of U.S. funds which have not been properly accounted for by the War Shipping Administration and the Maritime Commission?" He was on uncertain ground there. A long and careful investigation is needed to prove or disprove that charge, an investigation which Vermont's Senator George Aiken and others in Congress have demanded...
...close of the war, when he was accused of having "peace thoughts." he escaped more lightly than other Christian leaders. (Two Episcopal bishops spent more than three months in prison.) Possible reasons: 1) his ready accession to government pressure for a merger of the Christian churches; 2) his uncertain health; 3) his anti-American broadcasts, speeches, and articles...
...When we feel that the times in which we live are difficult and uncertain, a good remedy is . . . to take out a map of the world 'and look at the United States and the British Commonwealth and Empire; to measure what they add up to in population, in natural resources and in industrial power; and, above all, to think what will be the effect if this massive weight is placed solidly behind...