Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known survivor had witnessed the entire ritual of death, so just how Jones died remained uncertain. He was found at the foot of his pavilion chair with a bullet wound in his head, an apparent suicide. A pistol lay near by. An autopsy disclosed that Jones had not consumed the poison and had not been dying of cancer, as he had often told his followers...
...occasion the hardboard choreographers show their unfamiliarity with Curry's medium, and a few of the numbers are hesitant and uncertain. Tharp's After All, which features Curry alone, seems curiously stilted, and Saddler's turn-of-the-century Palais de Glace, which involves the whole company, verges on the kind of ice spectacle Curry disdains...
Maybe justice is blind. Although the Supreme Court singled out Harvard's undergraduate admissions process for special praise in last summer's Bakke decision, the Medical School's undergraduate admissions process now seems to be on uncertain legal ground...
...starvation every day. The self-praises and even the thanks for good fortune are of little use to those who are less fortunate. So if this is a time to give thanks, it is also a time not to take the stored harvest for granted. Americans sense an uncertain and uncontrolled element in their lives. That is evident in the kind of restless discontent that appeared in the off-year elections, not only in the cautious and sometimes contradictory voting but also in the low numbers of votes cast. "There is a mood of apprehension and anxiety, a fear...
More than usual, the analysts were dealing with a shifting and uncertain electorate. "Nothing stabilized," says Hart. "There were no overriding issues. People knew more what they didn't want than what they wanted. They didn't put the total record of an individual into perspective." Observes Political Consultant John Deardourff: "When you add a low threshold of interest to a lack of commitment to candidates or parties, the pollsters have a terrible time...