Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build up an undue pressure to win. Finally, the standout performers should not put their own performance above the team's. They should realize that the less-talented players are just as much members of the team as they are, and deserve the same regard and encouragement that they expect. Coaches and top players should recognize that no one gets experience by watching, and that the less proficient athletes need coaching and attention just as much as, if not more than, those who have been excelling for so long that it is second nature to them. They should encourage...
...foreign study programs. In History, Government, and Social Studies there are numerous students who plan Senior theses on European topics and who possess sufficient grasp of a foreign language to benefit from education abroad. In its own cosmopolitan way, of course, Harvard is strikingly provincial, and we expect there will be a flury of indignant questions: Why should anyone think he can learn more in Europe than at Harvard? Why let people fritter away a year at a lax foreign university? How can a student afford to miss junior tutorial, so necessary to passing general examinations...
...Democratic-dominated Senate-will submit meekly to L.B.J.'s every whimsy. Where the Administration could count on only about 170 sure House votes on major bills in the past session, and such measures as medicare, grants for school construction and expansion of area redevelopment were blocked, Democratic leaders expect to be able to deliver some 220 votes (218 is a majority) with certainty in the new House. In their victory euphoria, some even foresee a runaway House that might embark on congressional reform and propose welfare legislation on its own-thus proving to be even too liberal for Johnson...
Invasion or Revolution? But again the U.S. does not really expect Red China to launch invasions, believes that Peking has a reasonably healthy respect for the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the U.S. air forces stationed at island bases throughout the Pacific. China can obviously continue to rely on subversion and revolution, methods with which it is doing extremely well. This, rather than the Chinese bomb or even the Chinese army, is the basic challenge...
German: But your offer is much more costly than MLF. Who would have ultimate say in the use of the weapons under your plan? Frenchman: Well, of course, we would expect to maintain control...