Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saving some of his aircraft and missiles to strike back later. If so, it was a risky strategy. For example, the Iraqi dictator might have been able to save many of his planes by hiding them in hardened underground bunkers; the U.S. has been bombing those bunkers, but is uncertain how many of the planes inside them it has been able to destroy. According to a White House official, it hardly matters, "because now they can't take off. We've cratered almost all the runways." Later assessments, though, were that a significant part of the Iraqi air force...
WASHINGTON--The White House praised Israel's restraint in the uncertain hours after an Iraqi missile attack on Tel Aviv yesterday, and some members of Congress said they could sympathize with Israel if it counterattacked...
General Calvin Waller may have been uncertain whether all American troops will be ready when the Persian Gulf deadline passes this week, but TIME's small journalistic army is fully prepared. The deadline makes this a "weird" conflict, remarks chief of correspondents John F. Stacks. "Other wars developed by accretion or else suddenly, like Pearl Harbor. This long period of getting ready is nerve-racking." But at least it allowed Stacks time to deploy his forces...
Carnesdale said he, too, was uncertain about what would happen to Israel...
Just how America would approach a war is still uncertain. Last night, Congress was still debating what kind of powers to give the president after the United Nations deadline on January...