Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether Carter will prevail in the end is uncertain, but he can count on a number of strong allies, including Frank Church, the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Praising Carter for having "cut the Gordian knot," Church declared: "His decision to recognize China finally brings American policy into line with Asian realities." Many Senators brushed aside as unimportant Carter's failure to consult them. Said Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie: "We have been committed to normalization for six years, and everyone in Congress must have been aware that this dialogue was going on." Among other supporters of Carter...
...going to be one of the most dangerous players next year." But there remains that worry about the rookie's uncertain temper. "He needs to learn some humor," advises Nastase. McEnroe, who has been told to straighten up by his father, realizes his shortcomings. "I'm still in the process of learning, of trying to forget about the spectators and the linesmen," he says. "I do want to change...
...dollar's tribulations. Ohira intends to continue and even increase support for the greenback (see box). But because Ohira, as chief Cabinet secretary to Premier Hayato Ikeda in 1960, was an architect of Japan's spectacularly successful drive to make Japan an exporting juggernaut, Washington is uncertain about how eager he will be to trim those exports at a time when Japan's domestic economy has turned sluggish...
Martha C. Lyman, director of financial aid, said it was "uncertain whether financial aid would cover increased board costs," for those financial aid sutdents who opt for the 21-meal plan...
Then, around 1922, he made a complete volte-face. He was only 34 then, and the desire to be an old master seized him; the modernist experiment was too uncertain, and history, he thought, would condemn it. "I have seen," he wrote to André Breton in 1922, "yes, I have finally seen, that terrible things are happening today in painting." Amid hoots of derision from his former surrealist admirers, he marched firmly to the rear guard and took up an irritably defensive stance, maintaining it for the next half-century...