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Word: uncertainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the union won the spring election by anarrow margin of less than one percent of the 3400support staff, swing votes--which are the easiestvotes to lose--were key to the victory. Laborexperts say that unions often lose strength duringlegal delays, because uncertain voters changetheir minds...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Union Support Rebounds After Judge Upholds Victory | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...Robert has improved more over four years than any player I've ever seen," D'Ornellas says. "He's gone from a player uncertain of his role to being one of the best players on the team and one of the best defenders in New England and the Ivy League...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: He Just Wants to Play Soccer | 10/27/1988 | See Source »

...monologues get progressively better throughout the show, but they are almost all a bit too long. There are moments when Bogosian looks uncertain, when a gesture looks forced or when he seems as if he's about to break character completely. One hopes that Bogosian's stay at the ART will allow him to see when the various bits fall apart or fail to sustain themselves...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: All My Brain and Body Need | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

...Uncertain voters will be impressed by the barbs, the laughs and the cutting retorts or maybe by which candidate is better able to keep his cool. One would hope that someday these superficial issues--long a major factor in American elections--will fade in importance, and that political and ideological concerns will become paramount to every voter...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Personality Over Platform | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

...Cats and the hoopla still surrounding Eliot attest to the poet's surprising vitality. By many standards he should have been old news by now. He professed conservatism, elitism and sectarian Christianity at a time when the fashionable tides were running against all three. As a shy, uncertain young man, he was torn between the dictates of his proper upbringing and the tug of his emotions. He looked inward and saw himself coming apart; he looked outward and saw Western civilization dissolving into chaos. He tried to heal these rifts with words: "I have measured out my life with coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Long Way from St. Louis | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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