Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years of bitter war and a year of uncertain peace had passed since the battleship King George V slipped into Annapolis, carrying Lord Halifax to his new post as war-torn London's Ambassador to Washington. Last week, on the eve of homegoing and retirement, the tall, mild statesman looked into the troublous future, saw Anglo-American friendship as "a patch of good firm ground on which we can stand and be secure." Said...
...transferred half of his Athletics stock (estimated at $1 million) to three sons-two by his first wife-and that was the finish, said second wife Katherine. "He said it would all be straightened out in two or three years," she said. "He is 83, and life is too uncertain. . . ." Tutted Mack: "Things will be straightened...
...tough one: would any Russian newsman have the right to write an article demanding Stalin's removal? Ehrenburg coolly sidestepped, punctuating his reply with quick gestures of his small hands: "Categorically no! I must say that different peoples must understand the psychology of other people. . . . Sometimes people are uncertain...
...future of James Bryant Conant on the national scene is promising but as yet uncertain. It is certain that the next months will find a world figure occupied with what might seem to be the relatively prosaic duties of running Harvard University. But the drama of the local situation must not be minimized because of the smaller stage. Though there are many extenuating circumstances, Harvard finds itself in 1946 at the same cross-roads that provided an opportunity for a new President to strike out in a new direction in 1933. Thirteen years ago it was felt that Conant...
...world grimly determined that nothing shall remain static, the change-weary veteran who returns to Cambridge finds here no "back-to-normalcy" balm. Wherever he looks he sees a college in flux. His departure, it would seem, was the signal for new and uncertain educational ventures...