Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNRUH ON WAY. called the Town Crier, newspaper of Yale's Timothy Dwight College. So he was-and Yale did not know quite what to expect of California's Jesse Marvin Unruh (pronounced un-rue), who was traveling East to become this year's first Chubb Fellow...
Though man must take full responsibility for physical and chemical pollution of the air (see above), he can hardly be blamed for the viruses he inhales. He cannot help catching the common cold, grippe, influenza, and related viral diseases. Nor can he expect much help from the medical profession. At the A.M.A.'s clinical meeting, Dr. Edward L. Buescher of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research made no secret of the doctors' slim chance of success in the search for cures or preventives...
...fencers expect to have even less trouble winning their next match, against Bradford Durfee, than they had with Brandeis...
...Nowhere in my letter did I imply, as Cowan says, that "neither [Cowan] nor any white man can come to grips with the situation Baldwin portrays." I stated in my letter that White Americans can, should, and must come to grips with Baldwin's portrayal. But they cannot expect to grasp the true meaning and depth of the Negro's situation without experiencing confusion, threats, and perhaps much worse. To think otherwise is, I believe, to deny Baldwin's characterization of the Negro's reality and to seek shelter under a retarded variant of liberalism...
...calm is no longer acceptable. Their rejection of it, however, does not necessarily imply a black racist position. But that it should appear to do so--and in some instances may in fact become racist--is, I think, an inevitable part of the confusion and difficulties that we must expect to accompany greater efforts by Negroes to alter their situation. The socio-political change that these efforts involve is not, after all, the same thing as a discussion of current problems at a Sunday tea party for interracial students...