Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faults of Corwin's craftsmanship. It uses contrast effectively (a taut-voiced announcer says, The voice you hear will be that of the Conqueror: the man of the hour, the man of the year, of the past ten years and the next twenty-and a hesitant, uncertain G.I. voice speaks up). Corwin's text likewise relies on sharply contrasted images...
...Vague & Uncertain. "Whether this last statement was an order or a prophecy, no one knows. He might have said it in a spirit of resignation, realizing that if G&246ring were to succeed him, he would undertake negotiations. He might also have meant it as a direct order to negotiate after his death. The F&252hrer was by now rather vague and uncertain, giving no direct orders, apparently preoccupied with the prospect of his own imminent death...
...effective coalition of these peoples brought modern civilization through-battered and partly destroyed, but in triumph. And last week, even while its enemies succumbed in Europe, in San Francisco a parliament of the victors was groping toward a stronger and better civilized world. How crude were their efforts, how uncertain their vision was all too evident. Yet men everywhere were so painfully aware of the imperfections of the civilization which had triumphed that perhaps they underrated the triumph's decisiveness...
...position of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard was regarded as uncertain. It was thought certain that Navy Secretary Jimmy Forrestal, one of the nation's ablest officers, would stay on the job, as would Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes and Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace, from whom Truman won the Vice Presidential nomination in 1944's fierce intraparty battle...
...this second volume of his autobiography, "persons yielded in interest to places." But The Middle Span is mostly about the people the great Spanish-born philosopher knew during his years as a professor of philosophy at Harvard -somnambulistic years he calls them, when his progress was slow, his standing uncertain, and when President Eliot looked on him without approval...