Word: uncertainness
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...Solomon was being booked for first-degree murder, robbery and kidnapping, he muttered to himself and blew kisses at a female officer. For their protection, they were held in solitary cells, where late last week Solomon was found with bed sheets tied around his neck. Jail officials were uncertain whether it was a bungled suicide attempt or an effort to get ^ transferred to a hospital, from which escape would be easier...
...simply to find out what this text means." He asserts that here and in parallel passages, the Dead Sea Messiah "appears as triumphant -- as is usually the case. That is the normal Jewish tradition." Eisenman says either translation is possible, whereas Wise concludes that the matter will always remain uncertain because of textual problems...
...dust settles, the outlook for Harvard's financial aid remains uncertain. The ultimate effects of the federal government's intervention should be clear by next spring, when the Class of 1997 decides where to matriculate...
...that grandchild came to you and admitted that he had once smoked marijuana while listening to a bootlegged Megadeth tape on a Sony Walkman, and that he had passed the joint on to a multicultural friend of uncertain sexual orientation, and that a spaced-out biker at the same party had cursed all politicians who favor crash-helmet laws...
Describing the intense, uncertain optimism of Bucharest a few days after the revolution, for example, she writes that "it is like being present at a birth--one is full of trepidation and of joy, pity, terror: life...