Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lines of communications were uncertain. The railroads often did not run because the railway personnel ran away or was intimidated by Burmese. Our radio communication between echelons was poor...
...defenders of India are doubtless aware by now that nature and geography are uncertain allies. It was once an accepted fact that the mountainous borderland between Burma and India was impassable to armies-that the only practical route to India was by sea and air. Yet refugees from Burma filtered through those same mountains, 1,000 and more a day. The mountains which overlap eastern Burma and Siam were also supposed to be well-nigh impassable. Last week Japanese tanks from Siam wormed through the lower ranges, in dark prediction of what they may do on the road to India...
...probable lineup for the matches will star Max Tufts in his usual place at first, John Zinsser at two, and Bud Collinson, Pete Eaton, John Caldwell, and Bob Holtiwanger filling the other berths in that order. The doubles positions are still uncertain...
...Father Coughlin's up-to-the-minute Fascist newsmagazine on the grounds of sedition under the espionage act. At 11:30 Sunday morning Social Justice distributors in Boston decided not only that they would ignore this crimp in their staff, but they would also assert their displeasure in no uncertain terms. The driver of a Social Justice truck, Joseph McDonald, kicked to pieces Traveler photographer Hansen's camera when he tried to take a picture of a newsboy handing out the magazine. Hansen asserts that a Boston policeman held him while McDonald kicked, and it is definitely known that...
...Bataan's fall, was doubly harassing for Douglas MacArthur and the staff which had come with him from the Philippines. As soldiers, they might agree that nothing more could have been done to save Bataan. As men, they were bound to wish that more had been done. Their uncertain status in Australia did nothing to lighten their gloom...