Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the city dropping food and ammunition to the patriots at far less cost and risk than the R.A.F., which previously did it from bases over 800 miles away. But whether the Russians would try to cross the Vistula and storm the bluffs held by the Germans was still uncertain. The Russians have a more economic technique of enveloping such cities, demonstrated at Kiev. Last week they already had a bridgehead across the Vistula 25 miles southeast of Warsaw, from which the southern arm of a pincers could be forged; the northern arm was being brought to white heat...
...best trained he has ever seen, "but no one seems to have taken the proper trouble to introduce [him] to the uncertainty of war. . . . Men study maps and practice jumping off landing boats; but when . . . a Salerno comes along, they fly out of their boats into the uncertain darkness ahead and refuse to jump, or jump ashore and [then] jump back . . . and have to be exhorted by chaplains to advance into the unknown...
Said the New York Times: "The President's role in this matter has been uncertain and vacillating. This latest dissension, moreover, raises once more much wider questions about the President's administrative policies. It is, after all, merely the latest of a long series of such disagreements-between General Short and Admiral Kimmel, Mr. Hillman and Mr. Knudsen, Mr. Ickes and Mr. Henderson, Mr. Eberstadt and Mr. Wilson, Mr. Patterson and Mr. Jeffers, Mr. Jeffers and Elmer Davis, Mr. Byrnes and the War Labor Board, Mr. Ickes and the War Labor Board, Chester Davis and Mr. Vinson...
...auxiliaries broke down; hot water heater tubes burned out; stanchions and hooks cracked off; flight decks extended so far forward that heavy seas rolled up under them and in the case of at least one ship carried the forward end of the flight deck away. The Casablancas were an uncertain haven to returning planes, especially if the air was light and the ship was wallowing in a ground swell. Men nicknamed the carriers "Kaiser's Coffins...
...whereabouts of doddering old Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was uncertain. Many Frenchmen were sure that he would be in Paris to meet the victorious Allies, if the Nazis did not kidnap him. But, a fortnight before, Petain had told diplomats still in Vichy: "Should it become known that I have left ... I wish to make it clear that I will not leave of my own volition...