Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...18th landing there in the last 18 months. Before long he was talking with the new head of the government, General Rene Barrientos, who had once jokingly told Scott: "If you come here much more often, we're going to nationalize you." Scott found Barrientos uncertain about the specifics of the new government's course, but quick to take the position that "we are going to concentrate on economic plans, and this is the point of the U.S. program here...
Other players populating a distinguished "sick list" include starting half-back Dave Poe and kicking specialist Maury Dullea. Poe injured an ankle; his status for the Brown game is uncertain...
...first 22 months of his first term, until he lost the election, were marked by unusual if colorless honesty, but in the mad scramble afterwards by his supporters and staff to get jobs before the Democrats took over, he did little to distinguish himself. The Democratic Governor's Council, uncertain of its relations with the new Governor, Chub Peabody, and anxious to get his friends into office, was more than cooperative in making deals with Volpe who had a lot of appointing to do before clearing...
...months that followed, he marshaled the energies and patriotism of disparate forces in the Government and gunned ahead with the policies of the New Frontier. He was, and to a great extent still is, an uncertain hand at mastering the intricacies of the U.S. role in foreign affairs. But he brought much of Jack Kennedy's domestic program to fruition with great skill. The tax cut, the civil rights bill and the federal pay raise-all were products of the resoluteness with which Johnson as sumed his unaccustomed leadership. That leadership paid him a dividend: the respect and confidence...
...seemed detached and imperturbable as he sat at the Security Council's high table, mediating between East and West. He often exasperated the committed men of both sides. But he became a kind of special saint for the uncommitted, the uncertain, the uneasy, who only hoped for the best without knowing just what the best was, who believed that sheer good will could somehow resolve all the world's conflicts. His very immobility was reassuring; at times he seemed the still point of the turning world. Not even Dag Hammarskjöld's close friends knew that...