Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared that the "basic issue in the campaign" was "trying to restore the prestige of the United States." In a speech to a Democratic gathering in Boston's Symphony Hall, Johnson hammered away at his point. "America no longer stands pre-eminent," he said. "Her friends are uncertain of her. Her adver saries boast, and with obvious relish, that they are certain-certain that they can and will overtake us and bury us. Under no single Administration in American history has the position of our nation in the world declined so far or so fast as it has under...
...progress with a cover story in mind, and Beirut Correspondents William McHale and Dennis Fodor have ranged widely over the Iranian countryside. After one trip to the remote rug-making town of Tabriz, McHale had to return to Teheran in "an ancient Russian sedan with weak brakes and uncertain gears. For 15 hours we groaned up hills, whistled down mountain slopes in neutral, while the driver merrily sang Persian war songs and I repeated what I hoped was a perfect act of contrition...
Bodies in Bakwanga. Whether Lumumba has the military capability to conquer Katanga is becoming increasingly uncertain. At week's end the Lumumba forces assigned to spearhead the Katanga invasion were bogged down in the neighboring province of Kasai in what seemed to be building into a civil war of serious proportions...
...University of North Carolina. In 1948 he was called on to help organize the $3 billion Ford Foundation. He has since disbursed some $50 million to jack up economic research on campuses across the world. His passionate interest: broadening management training, which he defines as "preparation for an uncertain future...
...only eleven points above the year's low. The New York Times combined average of 501 stocks hit its worst point since November 1958. But there was no rush to sell. Volume averaged a thin 2,500,000 shares daily as the market drifted down. "People are uncertain," as Walston & Co.'s Edmund W. Tabbell put it. "They're not scared enough to sell, but not certain enough to buy." Perhaps some of the uncertainty was caused by the rumblings from Khrushchev, the Congo and U.S. politicking. But the biggest worry was over the question of when...