Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present Administration seems to be proceeding on a somewhat different line. It has evidently discarded the view that Soviet world action is imminent. The new strategic assumption seems to be that we are in for a world struggle of indefinite duration and of uncertain pattern-a test which may go on for years without a major collision...
Hovering in the background of all this, is Vivian's widowed mother, an alcoholic since the death of the daughter who despised her ("My bird, my bird" . . . "She hopped from the cliff like a cricket"). Miss Dunnock seems uncertain whether she should be tragic or pitifully absurd, as she flings hot-dogs around the stage and talks of the husband who never loved her. In any case, she gets little sympathy, least of all from Mrs. Eastman Cuevas, who tells the widow who clutches her hysterically and begs her not to leave: "Stop brooding!", a line reminiscent of Charles Addams...
Gruber's disclosures were greeted with Socialist cheers, but he seemed surprised and hurt when his own party summoned him on the carpet. "I had by no means the intention," he recanted, "of accusing political persons of the People's Party . . . of uncertain or unpatriotic attitudes." But it was too late. The party made Gruber resign the Foreign Ministry, which he has held since war's end. His probable successor: former Chancellor Figl, Austria's most beloved politician...
Greenough, who was uncertain when construction would begin, estimated the cost of the underpass...
...report charges, "a majority of students put second things first." It refuses to state exactly what curbs it would place on activities and athletics, but it attacks men who spend more than 10 hours a week on outside work. Just exactly how extra curricular activities would be run is uncertain. Since the curriculum change applies primarily to the first two years, most undergraduates feel that activities would start in the junior year, and no heavy responsibility would be accepted until the senior year. The exact effect on athletics is hard to determine, but most people think that there would...