Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manifestations of insurgent Negro pride at times exclude whites where they expect to be accepted. Last week in White Plains, N.Y., the Westchester County seat, 50 Negro community leaders met to analyze Negro faults and problems-and pointedly barred whites from the meeting. And at times a largely symbolic action seems to be self-defeating. The decision of 120 Negro students, among them some 65 athletes, to boycott the 1968 Olympic Games is a case in point. They considered their act a sign of protest against the denial of Negro rights in general. However, some Negroes among the many...
...their compulsion to run those blood-flecked combat scenes. The labor and expense of filming and transportation are too great, and the competition between the networks too brutal to drop them. Walter Cronkite thinks they may bring about a "general revulsion" against war, which may be too much to expect, since they by no means tell the whole story of Viet Nam. But even in their fragmentary form, they tend to discomfit the stay-at-homes...
...mini-pound should benefit U.S. consumers. However, the price of British goods shipped abroad will fall not by the full 14.3% devaluation but from zero to about 10%, depending chiefly on how much of the final tab represents transportation, import duties, U.S. distribution and profit markups. Auto dealers expect to cut prices of British cars by 5% to 10% within weeks. On the other hand, importers predicted that the cost of a bottle of Scotch will drop only a few pennies-after the Christmas holidays. Devaluation will shave the profits of some American-owned firms with large British operations. Food...
Roman said he knew that the man was a policeman, but "didn't expect him to find it obscene...
Cole Porter, the lyricist composer, was a Yale man. Ron Porter, the dancer-director, is a Harvard man. Put them together and Yale wins 24-20, but it's a hell of a game. Sometimes not what you'd expect, sometimes not what you'd want, but a hell of a game...