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Word: unclearly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unclear whether New York State still has the power to halt the plant. The state's Public Service Commission has approved the plant's construction and both Samuels and Steiner agreed that the federal government has jurisdiction, but they said that a reversal of the state agency's approval would impose complicated legal problems on the plant's future...

Author: By Walter N. Rothschild iii, | Title: New York Democrat Samuels Opposes Storm King Project | 6/12/1974 | See Source »

...unusual step of bypassing the circuit court of appeals in order to speed a final decision on whether the President had the right to withhold 64 tapes from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. While the short-run impact on the pace of the Rodino committee's work was unclear, the week's events may well have defined the outer limits of the President's ability to string out the proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Nixon's Date with the Supreme Court | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...nostalgia, and by a strong tinge of social snobbery. One CAP appeal for support wistfully calls for the "early consolidation-not of the Old Princeton, not of what is being recognized as the New Princeton, but of the Best of All Possible Princetons." What that might mean is unclear. What it most certainly does not mean is girls in the dorm, a Gay Alliance on campus, allowing older citizens to audit courses, or a sex-blind policy on admissions, which Princeton adopted last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Alums Are Restless | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...poem's explicit sexuality is unusual, the grotesque forms of the goblins certainly are not. They are a cross between animals and human beings; some have tails, others snouts, one is mostly rat. The difference between people and wild creature is typically unclear in fantasy. Lewis Carroll, for example, had no qualms about letting pigs sneeze, cats grin or caterpillars counsel...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Silent Moving Ones | 5/21/1974 | See Source »

Sixteen hostages were killed and 70 hostages were wounded in the action which took place before the terrorists were killed. Reports early this morning were unclear as to whether the hostages had been killed and wounded by terrorist grenades or Israeli gunfire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16 Students, 3 Terrorists Die In Gunfire at Israeli School | 5/16/1974 | See Source »

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