Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson reached Honolulu, White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers, returning from a scouting trip of Asia, reported the unsettling news that many people anticipated spectacular developments at this week's seven-nation conference. Hastily, the President wrote some cautionary lines into his arrival speech. "We do not expect to pull any rabbits out of any hats at Manila," he said. "We know that the greatest weapons in Viet Nam are patience and unity...
...messenger's job last August (a secret government inquiry is exploring the lapse in screening); then, acting on the impulse that he blamed on the demon inside him, Tsafendas attacked Verwoerd as he was about to make his first major policy speech of the Assembly session. "I can expect a certain amount of shock and dissatisfaction among certain people," Justice Beyers noted after his decision, "but I am sure they will realize it could not be otherwise, and that it is not humane or Christian to condemn mentally ill people. I can as little...
...know what to expect from the Mamas and the Papas -- all you've seen of them is their picture in a bathtub on the cover of their album and all you've heard are stories about LSD arrests. There are four of them and they flew in from the Virgin Islands last spring with two enormous hits and a totally original sound. You walk back stage at the Commonwealth Armory expecting to find a completely flipped-out bunch, four curiosities who happen to sing nice songs...
...continuing talk reflects some embarrassing statistics. In 1931, no less than 84% of U.S. physicians called themselves general practitioners; today, their numbers have shrunk to 37% . Only 18% of this year's medical graduates expect to go into general practice. The G.P. has steadily lost both prestige and patients to medicine's fast-growing horde of specialists. In hospital after hospital he has lost the privilege of attending his patients, and in many hospitals he has even been denied his traditional right to perform routine surgery...
...president of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet, is still stunned that a 16th century bronze brought $17,000, or $5,000 more than his most optimistic guess. For the first time Parke-Bernet's schedule is booked for the next six months. But cautions Pollen: "Don't expect to come and get bargains this year...