Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transformation of Padilla from a revolutionist in the hills to a man of property is a parallel to the transformation of Mexico. As a young politician, Padilla well remembered that the U.S. in 1846 fought Mexico over the uncertain Texas boundary and ended by taking a third of Mexico's territory, that it got another piece (by purchase) in 1853, that in 1914 it landed Marines at Vera Cruz, that it sent Black Jack Pershing into Mexico to chase Villa in 1916-all humiliations imposed by a big neighbor on a smaller...
...dusk, a Japanese warship appeared on the horizon. The men in the boats were uncertain whether it was a destroyer or a cruiser. Instantly, the small boats' engines were stilled: the four boats lay low. The warship passed MacArthur by. No more patrolling Japs appeared. No Japs spotted the boats from...
...bases, closer to the enemy, than in the Pacific. In France or Norway the Allies, at least at the start, would find defending forces weakened by the Russian campaign's demands on Hitler (see p. 23). They also would find welcoming, Nazi-hating populations, instead of the uncertain, imperialized hordes of the Indies, Malaya, India. In Britain the Allies had their one concentration of land and air force in sufficient strength to strike decisively. In Ireland the U.S. had the beginnings of such a force-a force which, if quickly and strongly reinforced, could be turned from just...
...allows a goodly weight saving by eliminating angle-pieces and overlapping necessary for riveting plates together. Unlike welded armor, cast armor has no seams of uncertain toughness. And, unlike both riveted and all-welded armor, cast armor can have rounded corners to deflect glancing shells...
...bothered to send. There is no reason why he should be expected to make a survey single-handed of the myriad opportunities open to college men, when even the Public Relations office has not found time for it. Any one who has tried to ascertain the relative chances in uncertain fields knows how fantastically difficult it is to find the right man, or to discover who is in charge. Far from being a part-time extracurricular activity for one Law Professor, this endless task can easily occupy the full energies of a large and hard-working committee...