Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that of many Negro kids taken out of slums and put here. They know that Harvard thinks a lot of them, bringing them here and all. But then they find that Harvard doesn't treat them very well. It just dumps them and leaves them alone. They tend to doubt how good they are when they run into a bunch of white kids who expect success and know exactly how to get along in this place which they don't. Harvard doesn't give them the continuing support to get by that their acceptance led them to expect...
...fatalism that has been growing among many city dwellers since Tet-and thus represents a threat to the Vietnamese government that is second only to North Viet Nam's General Giap. The South Vietnamese, urban and rural alike, now find themselves caught in a violent new period of doubt-about whether the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky can endure, whether the U.S. is able to protect the population and even whether the U.S. really wants...
...private sector, on the grounds that it undermines the collective-bargaining process. For the public sector, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has suggested what he calls "voluntary arbitration"-the intercession of an informed and mutually acceptable third party to engineer a settlement. One difficulty here is the genuine doubt that representative government, which receives its mandate from the public, can legally bind itself to an outside judgment...
Nobody who has ever known Bobby Hull could doubt the story. It was, remembers the senior Robert Hull, 57, "a cold son-of-a-gun of a night" in Point Anne, Ont., when the doctor delivered his fifth child (of eleven) and announced: "The only difference between your son and you is that he doesn't eat so much." Bobby weighed 12 Ibs. at birth. His father, a 240-lb. cement worker, could lift the front end of a car, and he was also a fair country hockey player-which is what folks do to keep warm...
Americans, of course, will continue to pay regular prices for most travel in the U.S.-and unless the nation's hoary customs procedures are changed completely, still have their luggage opened when they return from abroad. That will no doubt lead to many a complaint that the U.S. traveler is being discriminated against in his own land...