Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wrong Box is a deliberate fraud, with the prime example being the extra scene to get Sellers' name on the marquee. Audiences here have come to expect freshness, a fast pace, and genuine, if strange, with from the English imports, as in the Beatles' movie, The Knack, or even Morgan. But producer-director Bryan Forbes is not a Richard Lester. There was no valid reason to use the Victorian setting except to provide some lush decorative backgrounds and to hurl extremely naive lampoons at a sensibility that has already been lampooned to death...
...past, the return on education was sharply lower for Negroes than for whites, because of discrimination and other factors. For example, in 1949, a white high school graduate in the South could expect to earn a lifetime income of $6,250 great er than a drop-out. A nonwhite could expect only $1,820. With a lower return, greater pressure to begin to work to contribute to low family income, and cultural deprivation, it was no wonder that Negro youths generally quit school. But the situation is changing. Job discrimination is diminishing, and the value of a high school education...
Haryou-Act, Harlem's much publicized anti-poverty agency, is also expanding its already firm power base through block-by-block organization. In recent months, each block in the neighborhood has elected a representative and these representatives expect to be a powerful political pressure group...
...knows what response he can expect from the whites should any violence threaten. Shortly after midnight on August 13, twenty Philadelphia policemen raided the Freedom Library, looking for dynamite. Some 200 policemen were stationed nearby as riot deterrent. All that was found, however, was literature and posters, some of which the police took with them...
After two days of hectic debate, the T.U.C. gave Wilson the best he could reasonably expect: reluctant acquiescence to his wage-price freeze. But the narrowness of his victory was disturbing: with nearly 9,000,000 proxy ballots cast, he scraped through with a margin of only...