Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authors of Drinking in College, however, were uncertain about the relationship between alcohol and sex, so they neither supported nor denied the Ogden Nash theory that "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker...
...fact, no correct interpretation of the Amendment on the "separate but equal" question, for there is nothing in the words of the Amendment which clarify it. Nor does the answer lie in the intent of the framers or ratifiers of the Amendment. This is far too vague and uncertain. The only real standard by which the meaning of the Amendment can be judged is the intent of the present judges and the nation at large...
...keep it from rising more than a few feet. Then he climbed into the seat in his dark business suit and upturned fedora, started the engine and began?as he had in a Russian pasture 30 years before?trying to learn to fly a strange, new and hideously uncertain machine...
...diction and great emotional intensity. Mr. Woodworth distinguished carefully between flowing counter-point and contrasting chant-like sections, and he never permitted the tempo to lag. After this elegant bow to the Baroque a selection from Berlioz' Damnation of Faust did not fare so well. The attacks were often uncertain, and the singers almost shouted some of the high notes. A lack of preparation was apparent in some nearly disastrous mistakes and the frantic tempo...
...there are just a few of Jordan's alternatives; yet if he is uncertain about the means, there is no doubt in his mind about the end. If one wouldn't want to be. in Lloyd Jordan's shoes this week, then Charley Caldwell's would be, if anything, less comfortable...