Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elis, mired in the league's cellar, have had pitching problems all season, and it is still uncertain who wil start against the Crimson. Diminutive Pete Higuchi, who suffered the defeat in last year's Crimson victory, is a possibility...
This leaves fielding as the varsity's one major uncertain quantity. Third base is a particularly grave problem in this respect, and none of the other positions (with the possible exception of secondbase and catcher) are manned by notably sure-fingered players...
Reasons for the delay were the uncertain legal status of the decision and the prevalent feeling that opponents of the proposed ban had not been properly notified of the drive. But Councillor Joseph A. De Gueglielmo '29, picked up strong support from the Cambridge Civic Association and from Councillor Charles Watson, who said he was "inclined to think they're almost all used for gambling...
Legally under the code they can. Humanely, as the Smilja incident dramatically illustrated, grave problems are raised in consigning returnees to an uncertain fate back home. Since most Yugoslavs are economic refugees, more than half the 4,852 who crossed the Austro-Yugoslavian border since the crackdown began New Year's Day 1958 have been returned...
...display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play upon courses which seem to be suspended in mid-Atlantic, uncertain whether to nationalize in yesterday's Surrey or today's Eastern Seaboard. His people voice such dated Americanisms as "bozo" or "They said a mouthful." and also manage to class themselves with London's Angry Young Men of today...