Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vignettes of this broad country snatched on the run can be misleading; they are apt to go stale by morning or obscure what is real. Yet the winter's impressions are supported by the opinion polls; so maybe it is worth some recounting as we move toward an uncertain spring...
...more sacrifices, as the nation headed toward a divisive election and potentially disastrous coal shortages. While no one was predicting that they would not find the resilience to weather this latest avalanche of troubles, there was no question that the country was plunging into the most fatefully uncertain period in its postwar history...
Just what the new committee--which will be appointed by this summer--will recommend is uncertain; about all Rosovsky said about the new report was, "It is time to reestablish a consensus that will last another 20 years...
...money with which to bargain for talent. Last week, before N.F.L. owners could unholster their pens, the W.F.L.'s Southern California franchise signed three top college stars. The upstart league has also drafted 69 other college players, though how many of them will actually sign contracts is still uncertain...
...number of good reasons for Whistler's waspishness are suggested in this sturdy biography by Professor Stanley Weintraub, who has also written books about Oscar Wilde and G.B. Shaw. Whistler was sensitive about his size, uncertain about his talents and resentful toward an art establishment that refused to recognize him. Though he liked to see himself as a descendant of American Southern gentlemen, Whistler was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1834, the son of a West Point-trained engineering officer and a mother who, despite her North Carolina heritage, was a prototypical God-fearing Yankee...