Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...19th, through the many mass migrations in the 20th century, Americans have repeatedly grabbed what they could carry and headed off into the tall and uncut, down a risky path to a new prosperity. As America enters the 21st century, its role as the lone superpower is uncertain; the search for a truly multicultural society is under siege; its ability to raise standards of living is in doubt; and its recent record of solving its problems together is beginning to look like the Windsors. When Americans go to the polls this fall, they are going to choose someone who they...
...what, over the months, had become a nightly ritual of conversation and coffee around a small dining table. The Oprhals did not take part in the celebrations next day by returning Muslims outside. There was no joy in their diminished circle. Mira is now the one who faces an uncertain future, the one who needs protection. "Tomorrow is freedom for us, but Mira has nowhere to go," sighs Rabija. "The three of us will just stay here together...
...David Dunlap, president of Dunlap's Pine Bluff Monument Company in Arkansas, on the repossessing and removal of the tombstone of Nolan Parks III. The Parks family said they thought they had paid their $152 balance. The balance has now been paid, but it is uncertain when the monument will be returned...
While these may be small inconsistencies, they nonetheless obstruct reality from our parents. Though I am uncertain how to solve these problems, I would hope that students are in constant contact with their parents to share moments that are not so pretty as those which will be painted this weekend, so that parents can get a full view of what happens at Harvard and can think long and hard, weighing more than a breath-taking speech from a professor and a really good croissant from the master's tea, before putting those bills in the collection...
...BALSAM, 76, actor; in Rome. Born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of a sportswear salesman, Balsam went from the career-minting Actors Studio to live '50s TV to the movies, where he became a star portraying men who would never be stars. He was an uncertain juror in Twelve Angry Men (1957); a doomed detective in Psycho (1960); a Navy doctor utterly at sea in the moral morass of the nuclear age in The Bedford Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role that...