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Word: unclearly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requested such a machine and then used it so sporadically is unclear. He did like to keep written synopses of most Oval Office meetings; but he almost always either had an assistant take notes or dictated his recollections afterward. Whitman, who transcribed many of the tapes, points to the machine's deficiencies. After typing the first summary in 1953, she typed at the bottom that ''large portions of the tape were completely garbled.'' Five years later, when Queen Frederika visited the Oval Office, the recorder was still not cooperating: the transcript simply notes that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: President Ike Liked a Mike | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...departure threw the talks themselves into confusion just when President Carter's Special Envoy Robert Strauss was due in London this week in an effort to provide some momentum. It was unclear what effect Dayan's resignation would have, but U.S. and Arab diplomats both regretted the loss of one of Israel's most flexible and imaginative leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel's Dayan Walks Out | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...same direction. Each generation in the exhaustive family history of the Cook/Burlingame clan spends the first half of its life undoing its parents' work and the second half undoing its parents' work and the second half undoing its own. Jacob Horner is either performing in or direction (it's unclear) a play called Der Wiedertraum ("the Repeat Dream"), which reenacts his adulterous affair with the wife of a fellow inmate of the Remobilization Clinic. And so it goes, over and over again...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...tanks, 60 armored personnel carriers and other military hardware. Said an official: "It is clear that the brigade is not there to train Cubans. There is no substantial interplay with Cubans. If it were really a training unit, it was training itself." Though the brigade's purpose remains unclear, the unit does provide a degree of protection for the island while Cubans are busy elsewhere. There are now some 35,000 Cuban troops, technicians and civilian advisers in Africa. In the Caribbean, there are about 450 Cuban advisers in Jamaica, 250 in Nicaragua, 75 in Grenada, 70 in Guyana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Defuses a Crisis | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...that cost it the game. A penalty set up a free kick by the Big Red from just outside the penalty area. Harvard goalie Ed Weinfurter reached up to fist the ball just as Cornell forward Sam Fisher lept for a header. From there the events were unclear...

Author: By David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cornell Tips Booters, 1-0, After Double Overtime, 105-Minute Tense Contest | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

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